Re: [Python-ideas] Where did we go wrong with negative stride?

On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 2:43 PM, MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:

But if you're really set on having different types of some kind, how about real counting from the left and imaginary counting from the right:

seq[5j : 0j] # The last 5 items

seq[1 : 1j] # From second to second-from-last

Interesting idea, but is the notion of indexing a list with a float going to be another huge can of worms? ChrisA