Fredrik Lundh wrote: > Peter Hansen wrote: >>One of very first things newcomers learn (I believe, though I don't know >>how soon the tutorial teaches it) > > let's see. lists are introduced on page 19, a more extensive discussion of > lists is > found on page 33, the del statement appears on page 34, and the dir() function > is introduced on page 46.
You're spending a lot of time trying to convince me I'm wrong, yet until Georg did something about it just now, nowhere in those sections did it talk about [:] specifically, which is sort of the whole point. It is *not* obvious that although [x:] and [:y] and [x:y] take subsets of things, that leaving them both out is either legal or useful. Thankfully (to Georg), it now is. (Well, I haven't read it yet, but I'll take his word for it.) -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
