On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 7:50:58 PM UTC+5:30, Ian wrote: > On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Rustom Mody wrote: > > For that matter even this works > > But I am not sure whats happening or that I like it > > > >>>> [x[-2:] for x in lines] > > ['12', '42', '49', '56', '25', '36', '49', '64', '81', '00'] > > x[-2:] selects all items in the sequence with index i such that len(x) > - 2 <= i < len(x). For a sequence of length 2 or less, that's the > entire sequence.
Thanks -- learn something So it means that indices can give indexerror; slices cannot? Seems fair enough put that way, but is visually counterintuitive -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
