How Python works: What do you know about support for negativeindices?

[Mark Tolonen]

"Ben Finney" <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote in message 
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> Raymond Hettinger <python at rcn.com> writes:
>
>> It doesn't seem to be common knowledge when and how a[x] gets
>> translated to a[x+len(x)].  So, here's a short info post on how Python
>> supports negative indices for sequences.
>
> Thanks for this. Could you post your messages using a channel that
> doesn't arbitrarily split your paragraphs into long-short-long-short
> lines? It makes paragraphs burdensome to read, and I skipped most of the
> message because of that.
>
> I encourage anyone whose messages are munged like that to seek
> correction from their mail service provider, and switch to a different
> one until it's fixed.
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It came across fine for me (on much maligned Outlook Express, no less).

-Mark