Chris Angelico wrote: > On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Emile van Sebille <em...@fenx.com> wrote: >> On 2/13/2014 11:59 AM, Zachary Ware wrote: >>> >>> In a fit of curiosity, I did some timings: >> >> >> Snip of lots of TMTOWTDT/TIMTOWTDI/whatever... timed examples :) >> >> But I didn't see this one: >> >> s[::len(s)-1] > > .... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGGGGGGGGGHHHH! > > Really, I actually did pause, double-take, and then scream under my > breath, when I saw that. Yes, it works. But please, if you EVER do > this, save me the trouble and just submit your code to thedailywtf.com > straight away!
For the record: >>> s = "x" >>> s[::len(s)-1] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> ValueError: slice step cannot be zero -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
