[Python-ideas] [Python-Dev] Inclusive Range

[Jed Smith]

On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve at remove-this-cybersource.com.au> wrote:
> On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:21:16 +0200, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>
>> Personnaly I find it horrible
>> that in the following expression: L[a:b:-1], it is impossible to give a
>> numeric value to b, that will include L[0] into the reversed slice.
>
>
>
>>>> L = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>>> L[5:-6:-1]
> [5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> a[::-1]
[6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

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Jed Smith
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