Thanks, Philippe
Peter Hansen wrote: > Philippe C. Martin wrote: >> I guess my slicing was wrong, l[-1] worked > > Note that that's _not_ a slice, however, but a reference to the last > element in the list. > > You'd have to subclass list to be able to do something with > "reference-slices". Probably returning a special object from > __getslice__ which itself has references back to the original list and > implements any changes back in the original instead of in itself. I > haven't tried to imagine if this is even feasible. > > Anything "indexing" with : in it is a slice, so a copy, while anything > with only a single index as you have in l[-1] is just a reference to one > element in the list. > > -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
