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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 06:33:31 -0700
From: Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us>
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On 10/10/2013 12:43 AM, Terry Reedy wrote:
> On 10/10/2013 2:45 AM, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 5:12 PM, Peter Cacioppi
>> <peter.cacioppi@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to think of a good example usage of echo-argument and. Maybe something like
>
>>> A bit awkward, echo-argument or is more naturally useful to me then echo-argument and.
>>
>> first_element = some_list[0]    # Oops, may crash
>
> some_list[0:1] always works, and sometimes is usable, but you still cannot index the slice.

Not if some_list is None, False, or another non-indexable type.

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~Ethan~