On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:26:14 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote:
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> "Stephan Diehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>>I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than
>> the length of the object. For example
> 'test'[:50]
>> 'test'
[...]
>> Does anybod
"Stephan Diehl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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>I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than
> the length of the object. For example
'test'[:50]
> 'test'
'test'[40:50]
> ''
> I'd rather expected to be confronted with an IndexError.
> (
I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than
the length of the object. For example
>>> 'test'[:50]
'test'
>>> 'test'[40:50]
''
I'd rather expected to be confronted with an IndexError.
(This is actually described in
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html, so my expectation
