James Stroud wrote: > John Salerno wrote: >> Given: >> >> numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] >> >> can someone explain to me why >> >> numbers[10:0:-2] results in [10, 8, 6, 4, 2]? >> >> I thought the first index, whether going forward or backward, was >> inclusive. And there is no index of 10 in this list, so what is it >> referring to? >> >> Thanks. > > Its referring to right after the end of the list, just as the 0 refers > to just before the start of the list. The word "slice" is supposed to > suggest cutting between (or before or after) elements. >
But why isn't the first index inclusive in this case? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
