On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano <st...@remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:21:16 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote: > >> Personnaly I find it horrible >> that in the following expression: L[a:b:-1], it is impossible to give a >> numeric value to b, that will include L[0] into the reversed slice. > > > >>>> L = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>>> L[5:-6:-1] > [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]
>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] >>> a[::-1] [6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1] -- Jed Smith j...@jedsmith.org -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list