Re: curious asymmetry in range limiting

2018-03-20 Thread Wolfgang Maier
On 03/20/2018 03:21 PM, Robin Becker wrote: I don't know how I never came across this before, but there's a curious asymmetry in the way ranges are limited Python 3.6.0 (v3.6.0:41df79263a11, Dec 23 2016, 08:06:12) [MSC v.1900 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "lic

Re: curious asymmetry in range limiting

2018-03-20 Thread Robin Becker
So eventually I tried this C:\code\hg-repos\reportlab>\python36\python -c"s='0123456789';print(repr(s[-5:15]))" '56789' C:\code\hg-repos\reportlab>\python36\python -c"s='0123456789';print(repr(s[-6:15]))" '456789' and the light dawned :) seems the negative indexes rules apply to both On