Ugh, I hate the idea of library code having to think about dealing with the possibility that you chose 42 as the starting index for some list you passed into a function in said library. Then I suppose we'll have to extend this to strings and tuples and so forth as well? Seriously, any further "solutions" for this non-problem are just mental masturbation -- please stop. m On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 11:05:28PM -0700, mike.w.meyer@gmail.com wrote:

Ok, how about enhancing the list type to allow specifying an offset, defaulting to 0? The offset should be positive, and that many elements simple aren't there. Asking for an element that isn't there, or a slice including such an element, raises value error exception. The iterators & etc for this list would all start at offset instead of zero. -- Sent from my Android tablet with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas

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