a possibly foolish question about slices

[Michael Hudson]

garth at deadlybloodyserious.com (Garth T Kidd) writes:

> > x[p:][:n]
> 
> Does the parser take the appropriate short-cut, here,

No.  Wouldn't be the parser anyway, would it?

> or do we end up with a temporary list?

It's very easy to answer questions about whether Python performs this
sort of optimization: it doesn't.

Cheers,
M.

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