negative indices for sequence types

[Michael Peuser]

"dan" <danbmil99 at yahoo.com>
> I was recently surprised, and quite shocked in fact, to find that
> Python treats negative indices into sequence types as if they were
> mod(length-of-sequence), at least up to -len(seq).
>
> This fact is *deeply* buried in the docs, and is not at all intuitive.

I think it is addressed even in most tutorials because it is quite handy as
others already pointed out. There is the same fetaure in Perl.

Kindly
Michael P