[pydotorg-www] modifying https://wiki.python.org/moin/MovingToPythonFromOtherLanguages
Lew Kurtz
lew.kurtz at icloud.com
Wed May 23 23:28:12 EDT 2018
apologies, an account name would be helpful, mine is
LewKurtz
> On May 23, 2018, at 7:50 PM, Lew Kurtz <lew.kurtz at icloud.com> wrote:
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> I wanted to create an account to discuss changes to the indexes and slices example, because basically, the right and left sides of that example seem only half related; the way it is written, could be convinced that the first element in that list on the left consists of the list [0,1,2,3,4,5] I think would be clear if it was something like this
> (sorry the spacing is not good)
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> Index from rear -6 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1
> index from front 0 1 2 3 4 5
> +—+—+—+—+—+—+
> my_list = | a | b | c | d | e | f |
> +—+—+—+—+—+—+
> Slice from front : 1 2 3 4 5 :
> Slice from rear : -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 :
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> (notice also only 4 colons instead of 8)
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> Then on the right side
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> my_list=[a,b,c,d,e,f]
> len(my_list)==6
> my_list[0]==a
> etc.
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> This way, the whole example is connected.
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> That’s my 2 cents. If you think I’m off in left field, then I don’t need access to modify the page. Or please feel free to make these modifications if that’s easier.
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> Thanks,
> Lew
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