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Re: Negative array indicies and slice()

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Andrew Robinson wrote:
> I can see that the slice() function can pass in arbitrary arguments.
> I'm not sure for lists, which is what the range is applied to, why an 
> argument like "a" would be part of a slice.

Well, in my dbf.py Record class you can use the names of fields as the slice arguments, instead of 
having to remember the offsets.  record['full_name':'zip4'] returns a tuple (or a list, I don't 
remember) of about 13 fields -- this is especially useful as that block of fields might not be in 
the same place in each table.

~Ethan~

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Re: Negative array indicies and slice() Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-10-30 14:21 -0700

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