On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:53:17 -0400, Jed Smith wrote: > 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]
Well of course that works, that is the standard Python idiom for reversing a sequence. But the point was that Antoon claimed that there is no numeric value for the end position that will include L[0] in the reversed slice. My example shows that this is not correct. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
