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Mon Sep 5 13:06:42 EDT 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/319673.html

I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than
the length of the object. For example
>>> 'test'[:50]
'test'
>>> 'test'[40:50]
''

I'd rather expected to be confronted with an IndexError.
(This is actually described in 
http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html, so my expectation was wrong :))

Does anybody know, why this is preferred to just raising an error?

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curious about slice behaviour