> [snipped alot from others about indexing, slicing problems, > and the inadequacy of -1 as Not Found indicator]
on 31.08.2005 16:16 Ron Adam said the following: > The problem with negative index's are that positive index's are zero > based, but negative index's are 1 based. Which leads to a non > symmetrical situations. Hear, hear. This is, for me, the root of the problem. But changing the whole of Python to the (more natural and consistent) one-based indexing style, for indexing from left and right, is... difficult. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
