[Tutor] still breaking chains

Jim Mooney cybervigilante at gmail.com
Sun Apr 12 20:03:07 CEST 2015


If join returns a string, why am I getting a syntax error when I try  to
slice it?

>>> 'alfabeta'[2:5]
'fab'
>>> ''.join(['a', 'l', 'f', 'a', 'b', 'e', 't', 'a')[2:5]
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

-- 
Jim


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