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[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals

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> Charles wrote:
> When I was a complete Python newbie (back around 1994) I thought that
> the syntax
> 
> l2 = l1[:]
> 
> for copying lists looked pretty mysterious and weird.  But after
> spending some time programming Python I've come to think that the
> slice syntax is perfectly natural.  Should constructs be banned from
> the language simply because they might confuse newbies?

Greg writes:
Well, it *is* the reason we switched from Perl to Python in our software
engineering course...

Greg

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