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Re: mystery string code - help!

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From Uncle Ben <ben@greenba.com>
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Subject Re: mystery string code - help!
Date Wed, 20 Apr 2011 17:58:14 -0700 (PDT)
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On Apr 20, 1:01 pm, Dan M <catd...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > As a newbie Pythoner, I understand [] -1] but would some tell me how
> > '::' does its magic?
>
> > Uncle Ben
>
> The -1 is the "stride" or "step" argument. It's described athttp://docs.python.org/release/2.3.5/whatsnew/section-slices.html
>
> Dan

Very helpful!

Ben

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mystery string code - help! Uncle Ben <ben@greenba.com> - 2011-04-20 09:48 -0700
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    Re: mystery string code - help! Uncle Ben <ben@greenba.com> - 2011-04-20 17:58 -0700

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