Why Python does *SLICING* the way it does??

[Javier Bezos]

"James Stroud" <jstroud at mbi.ucla.edu> escribió en el mensaje
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> I like this, it works for any integer.
> >>> str="asdfjkl;"
> >>> i=-400
> >>> print str[:i]+str[i:]
> asdfjkl;
> >>> i = 65534214
> >>> print str[:i]+str[i:]
> asdfjkl;

Actually, this has no relation with the half-open
slices but with the fact that if i goes beyond
the limit of the string then Python, wisely, doesn't
raise an error but instead return the string until
the end. When people say that half-open slices work
for every i, they are tinking in the case i=0.

Javier

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