Op 2005-08-30, Bengt Richter schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 30 Aug 2005 10:07:06 GMT, Antoon Pardon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Op 2005-08-30, Terry Reedy schreef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> "Paul Rubin" <"http://phr.cx"@NOSPAM.invalid> wrote in message >>> news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> >>>> Really it's x[-1]'s behavior that should go, not find/rfind. >>> >>> I complete disagree, x[-1] as an abbreviation of x[len(x)-1] is extremely >>> useful, especially when 'x' is an expression instead of a name. >> >>I don't think the ability to easily index sequences from the right is >>in dispute. Just the fact that negative numbers on their own provide >>this functionality. >> >>Because I sometimes find it usefull to have a sequence start and >>end at arbitrary indexes, I have written a table class. So I >>can have a table that is indexed from e.g. -4 to +6. So how am >>I supposed to easily get at that last value? > Give it a handy property? E.g., > > table.as_python_list[-1]
Your missing the point, I probably didn't make it clear. It is not about the possibilty of doing such a thing. It is about python providing a frame for such things that work in general without the need of extra properties in 'special' cases. -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
