Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Does anyone here use slices (or range/xrange) with negative strides > other than -1? > > E.g. sequence[2:15:-3]
With any negative stride your example is just the empty sequence. > > > If so, there is a discussion (long, long, looooooong discussion) on > the python-ideas mailing list, debating whether or not to deprecate or > change the behaviour of slicing with negative strides. So if you care > about the current behaviour, now is the time to stand up and be > counted. > > (Standing up *here* is fine, don't feel that you have to join yet > another list.) > For those of us that don't really want to join another mailing list, could you summarise what change is being proposed? -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
