Thomas Jollans wrote: > What I thought was going on was that single-character strings return > self on [0], as they do on full-length slices. > >>>> c = 'δ' >>>> c[0] is c > False >>>> c[:] is c > True >>>> c[0:1] is c > True >>>> > > I wonder why they don't do this...
Perhaps noone has found a use-case that would profit from this optimization, straight-forward as it may be... -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
