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Re: What's correct Python syntax?

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Date 2014-01-14 02:51 -0800
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Subject Re: What's correct Python syntax?
From Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, January 14, 2014 4:05:27 PM UTC+5:30, Igor Korot wrote:
> Hi, Rustom,
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 2:16 AM, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > You want this?
> >
> >>>> test = "I,like,my,chocolate"
> >>>> test.split(',')
> > ['I', 'like', 'my', 'chocolate']
> >>>> test.split(',')[2:4]
> > ['my', 'chocolate']
> 
> 
> Yup, thats it.
> Now 2 and 4 - it's a starting point and ending point, right?

In python ranges are usually lo-inclusive hi-exclusive.
Slices are one case of this

See explanations:
http://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/introduction.html#strings
and
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/509211/pythons-slice-notation

Neat theoretical explanation
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD831.html

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What's correct Python syntax? Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 00:46 -0800
  Re: What's correct Python syntax? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 00:54 -0800
    Re: What's correct Python syntax? Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 01:25 -0800
      Re: What's correct Python syntax? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 01:37 -0800
        Re: What's correct Python syntax? Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 02:02 -0800
          Re: What's correct Python syntax? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 02:16 -0800
            Re: What's correct Python syntax? Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 02:35 -0800
              Re: What's correct Python syntax? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 02:51 -0800
          Re: What's correct Python syntax? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-14 08:47 -0500
        Re: What's correct Python syntax? Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2014-01-14 12:33 +0100
        Re: What's correct Python syntax? Ned Batchelder <ned@nedbatchelder.com> - 2014-01-14 07:19 -0500
        Re: What's correct Python syntax? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-01-14 08:58 -0500
    Re: What's correct Python syntax? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-01-14 09:37 +0000
    Fwd: What's correct Python syntax? Igor Korot <ikorot01@gmail.com> - 2014-01-14 02:03 -0800
      Re: Fwd: What's correct Python syntax? Larry Hudson <orgnut@yahoo.com> - 2014-01-14 22:00 -0800
  Re: What's correct Python syntax? Alister <alister.ware@ntlworld.com> - 2014-01-14 10:59 +0000
  Re: What's correct Python syntax? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2014-01-14 08:34 -0500

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