Issue 5029: Odd slicing behaviour (original) (raw)

Issue5029

Created on 2009-01-22 02:01 by dgaletic, last changed 2022-04-11 14:56 by admin. This issue is now closed.

Messages (2)
msg80354 - (view)	Author: Dinko Galetić (dgaletic)	Date: 2009-01-22 02:01
#the following code should return an empty list, but returns the 0th member of the list >>> foo = [1, 2, 3] >>> foo[0::-1] [1]
msg80360 - (view)	Author: Antoine Pitrou (pitrou) *	Date: 2009-01-22 08:27
Why should it return an empty list? >>> foo = [1,2,3] >>> foo[1::-1] [2, 1] >>> foo[0::-1] [1] looks quite consistent to me.