Name for Python's list index system

[Emile van Sebille]

It's called slicing.

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Emile van Sebille
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"Eddie and Babs" <kca17 at dial.pipex.com> wrote in message
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> A much-appreciated feature of Python is its subscripting/indexing system
> which allows you to write
>
>     list[-1]    # Get last element
>     list[-2]    # Get 2nd to last element
>
> ...etc.
>
> Do this feature have any "official" name in Python? If not, then I think
it
> should. Perhaps "modulo" or "modular" indices? (Could be abbreviated to
> "mod")
>
>
> &
>
>