Op 09-09-15 om 01:55 schreef Michael Torrie: > In any case, 0-based indexing in Python makes a lot of sense when you > bring in the slicing syntax. Especially if you think of slicing as > operating on the boundaries between cells as it were.
Then you have never used slices with a negative step. If slicing would operate on the boundaries between cells then the reverse of lst[2:7] would be lst[7:2:-1] instead it is lst[6:1:-1] This gets you in trouble when you want to reverse through lst[0:8] which would be lst[7:-1:-1] but now the special meaning of negative indexes kicks in and you are screwed. -- Antoon Pardon -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
