Joan Miller <pelok...@gmail.com> writes: > What does a slice as [N::-1] ? > > It looks that in the first it reverses the slice and then it shows > only N items, right? > > Could you add an example to get the same result without use `::` to > see it more clear? > > Thanks in advance
>>> l = range(10) >>> l [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] >>> l[7::-1] [7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0] >>> [l[i] for i in range(7, -1, -1)] [7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0] -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list