"Courageous" <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote in message news:89hhntoaqhok150qcv4v5ue9vk9sg7svlq at 4ax.com... ... > When I first learned slices, I thought they were just plain radical. Python gets a As I have an APL background, Python's slices seemed pretty tame to me in comparison...:-). Alex