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On 15/06/13 07:21, ian.l.came...@gmail.com wrote:
I bet this is asked quite frequently, however after quite a few hours searching
I haven't found an answer.
What is the thinking behind stopping 'one short' when slicing or iterating
through lists?
By example;
a=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6]
a
[0, 1, 2,
On Friday, June 14, 2013 10:21:28 PM UTC-7, ian.l@gmail.com wrote:
>I'm sure there's a good reason, but I'm worried it will result in a lot of
>'one-off' errors for me, so I need to get my head around the philosophy of this
>behaviour, and where else it is observed (or not observed.)
My under
Chris Rebert wrote:
> On Jun 14, 2013 10:26 PM, wrote:
>> What is the thinking behind stopping 'one short' when slicing or
>> iterating through lists?
> I find Dijkstra's explanation rather convincing:
> http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html
This is the only case whe
On Sat, Jun 15, 2013 at 3:21 PM, wrote:
> What is the thinking behind stopping 'one short' when slicing or iterating
> through lists?
>
> By example;
>
a=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6]
a
> [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
a[2:5]
> [2, 3, 4]
>
> To my mind, it makes more sense to go to 5. I'm sure there's a
On Jun 14, 2013 10:26 PM, wrote:
> I bet this is asked quite frequently, however after quite a few hours
searching I haven't found an answer.
>
> What is the thinking behind stopping 'one short' when slicing or
iterating through lists?
>
> By example;
>
> >>> a=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6]
> >>> a
> [0, 1, 2,
I bet this is asked quite frequently, however after quite a few hours searching
I haven't found an answer.
What is the thinking behind stopping 'one short' when slicing or iterating
through lists?
By example;
>>> a=[0,1,2,3,4,5,6]
>>> a
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> a[2:5]
[2, 3, 4]
To my mind,
