James Henderson james at logicalprogression.net
Thu Jan 22 05:35:07 EST 2004

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On Thursday 22 January 2004 4:54 am, r.e.s. wrote:
> "James Henderson" <james at logicalprogression.net> wrote ...
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> JH  Assignment to x[-4:-3] is not same as assignment to x[-1:0]:

Since this wasn't made clear in r.e.s.'s post I'd just like to point out that 
the above obervation was in response to the proposal that a negative index 
"i" was simply a shorthand for "i + len(x)".  (len(x) was 3.)

James
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