[Python-Dev] List insert at index that is well out of range (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Tue Sep 16 00:57:17 CEST 2014


On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 3:46 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

I assume it's based on the concepts of slicing. From the docs "s.insert(i, x) - inserts x into s at the index given by i (same as s[i:i] = [x])".

Ah, right. It matches thigs like s[100:] which is the empty string if s is shorter than 100.

Although shouldn't that read s[i:i+1] = [x] ?

Should've stopped while you were ahead. :-)

'Nuff said.

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