SV: Surprised by the command "del"

>>I'm reading the docs and at 5.2 the del >>statement is discussed. At first, i thought >>i've found a typo but as i tried that >>myself, it turns it actually does work so. >> >> a = ["alpha", "beta", "gamma"] >> del a[2:2] >> a >> >>Now, i expected the result to be that the >>"beta" element ha

SV: Surprised by the command "del"

>> I'm reading the docs and at 5.2 the del >> statement is discussed. At first, i thought >> i've found a typo but as i tried that >> myself, it turns it actually does work so. >> >> a = ["alpha", "beta", "gamma"] >> del a[2:2] >> a >> >> Now, i expected the result to be that the >> "beta"