Andrew <andrewr3m...@gmail.com> writes: > So: Why does python choose to convert them to positive indexes, and > have slice operate differently than xrange
There was a thread a few years back, I think started by Bryan Olson, that made the case that slice indexing is a Python wart for further reasons than the above, and suggesting a notation like x[$-5] to denote what we now call x[-5] (i.e. $ is the length of the string). So your example x[$-4:3] would clearly be the same thing as x[6:3] and not give any suggestion that it might wrap around. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
