Jed Smith <j...@jedsmith.org> writes:
> 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]
b doesn't have a numeric value though.
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