On Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 8:06 AM, Peter Otten <__pete...@web.de> wrote: > 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
And that, my friends, is a classic example of a Python exception that ought to be a subclass of UnhingedProgrammerError. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list