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

[MRAB]

On 31/10/2013 00:17, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 7:59 PM, MRAB <python at mrabarnett.plus.com
> <mailto:python at mrabarnett.plus.com>> wrote:
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>     I don't think it's that bad; I count 3: "!", "$" and "?". :-)
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> Wasn't use of "`" dropped from Python 3?  This makes it 4!
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Wasn't one of the reasons it was dropped because it looked too much
like "'"? Well, it still does! :-)