Striding slice?

[Bengt Richter]

On Mon, 27 Aug 2001 07:13:50 GMT, Brian Lee <senux at senux.com.NOSPAM> wrote:

>Bengt Richter wrote:
>>  >>> a='0123456789'
>>  >>> a[0:5]
>>  '01234'
>>  >>> a[0:5:2]
>>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>>  TypeError: sequence index must be integer
>>  >>>
>> 
>> How about (faked example):
>>  >>> a[0:5:2]
>>  '024'
>
>>>> a = '0123456789'
>>>> a[0:5]
>'01234'
>>>> a[0:5][:2]
>'01'
>
I actually did mean '024' ;-)