On 1/26/2011 12:52 PM, Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
If you're trying to learn a language, I would suggest reading
tutorials, not the grammar.
I second that.
As you can see from the error thrown, the
operation is syntactically valid (you don't get a syntax error). It's
just that lists don't accept
On 1/26/2011 9:20 AM Gerald Britton said...
I'm looking at extended slicing and wondering when and how to use slice lists:
I think the use of the term slice_list below is simply as the content
between the encompassing brackets, eg in mylist[1:2:3] slice_list refers
to 1:2:3. So, you don't ac
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:20 AM, Gerald Britton
wrote:
> I'm looking at extended slicing and wondering when and how to use slice lists:
>
> slicing ::= simple_slicing | extended_slicing
> simple_slicing ::= primary "[" short_slice "]"
> extended_slicing ::= primary "[" slice_list "]"
On 1/26/11 11:20 AM, Gerald Britton wrote:
I'm looking at extended slicing and wondering when and how to use slice lists:
slicing ::= simple_slicing | extended_slicing
simple_slicing ::= primary "[" short_slice "]"
extended_slicing ::= primary "[" slice_list "]"
slice_list ::
On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Gerald Britton
wrote:
> I'm looking at extended slicing and wondering when and how to use slice lists:
>
> slicing ::= simple_slicing | extended_slicing
> simple_slicing ::= primary "[" short_slice "]"
> extended_slicing ::= primary "[" slice_list "]
> Lists are one-dimensional. They can only take one slice, not two.
Ah ok, I thought
l[3:4,5:8]
would return
[3,5,6,7]
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Reading:
>
> http://docs.python.org/ref/slicings.html
>
> it would seem to indicate that the ff will work:
>
> L=[0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
>
> however, you get:
>
> >>> l[3:4:,5:8:]
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "", line 1, in ?
>
