I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than the length of the object. For example >>> 'test'[:50] 'test' >>> 'test'[40:50] ''
I'd rather expected to be confronted with an IndexError. (This is actually described in http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html, so my expectation was wrong :)) Does anybody know, why this is preferred to just raising an error? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
