Ka-Ping Yee wrote: > > >>> [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10][0:5:2] > [0, 2, 4] Well, today this is syntactically correct but it doesn't work as you (or I) predict. I don't know if that's because nobody has implemented it yet or if extended slices mean something other than what I think you and I think they should mean: Python 2.0b1 (#12, Jul 1 2000, 13:14:33) Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam Copyright 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) >>> [0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10][0:5:2] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: sequence index must be integer The documentation on extended slicing is very thin, but if it doesn't do this, I'm not sure what it does! -- Paul Prescod - Not encumbered by corporate consensus Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. - http://www.cs.yale.edu/~perlis-alan/quotes.html
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