[Python-Dev] Python Design issue with print() function

[ravi y]

Hi Python Developers,
print() function has a slight design issue, when user gives start and end positions of character array.Issue: >>> str_ary="abcdef" >>> print(str_ary[1]) b >>> print(str_ary[4]) e >>> print(str_ary[1:4]) bcd >>> 
 In the above scenario, user is expecting that output of print function will be bcde (not bcd).
Analysis: I kind of figured out what could be the issue.  To get the string slice, "between" (or equivalent) was used. i.e.  str_ary array position >=1 and < 4 Solution:   User experience will be better if the code is updated to get last character.   i.e str_ary array position >=1 and <= 4
Note: To keep the code as backward compatibility, you may come up with different name like printf() 
ThanksRavi Yarlagadda   
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