> > This is explained in the Python tutorial for strings > https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/introduction.html#strings, as a list > is a sequence just like a string it will act in exactly the same way. >
The only relevant bit I found in that link is: "However, out of range slice indexes are handled gracefully when used for slicing". I do understand _how_ slices work, but I would really like to know a bit more about why slices will never throw out-of-bounds IndexErrors. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
