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Possible bug in string handling (with kludgy work-around)

Charles Hixson charleshixsn at earthlink.net
Tue Dec 27 10:54:57 EST 2011 
That was it!  Thanks.

On 12/26/2011 02:44 PM, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 9:23 AM, Charles Hixson
> <charleshixsn at earthlink.net>  wrote:
>    
>> This doesn't cause a crash, but rather incorrect results.
>>      
> You may need to be a bit clearer. What line of code (or what
> expression)? What did you expect to see, and what did you see?
>
> > From examining your code, I've come up with one most-likely scenario.
> In Python, indexing is zero-based and, in effect, indexes the
> boundaries between items rather than the items themselves. Referencing
> string[-1] actually means asking for the boundary between the
> second-last and last characters; using that as your end marker
> actually trims off the last character. What you may want is simply:
>
> self.wordList[i][1:]
>
> which means "from character position 1 to the end of the string".
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Chris Angelico
>    
Sorry I didn't specify things more clearly.

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Charles Hixson
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