Python information and short questions megathread.

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Python information and short questions megathread.

pangstrom: Jan 25, 2003; Wedge Regret

Just as something that bothers me continuously (much like factors in R), is there a nice under-the-hood or mathematical reason why when subsetting lists or numpy arrays the last number is excluded? (e.g., mylist[1:3] means the 2nd and 3rd element, but not the 4th) I'm fine with zero-indexing for some reason but that one fucks me up on the regular.

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pangstrom: Jan 25, 2003; Wedge Regret

I guess that's as good a reason as I could have hoped for. Did/have other languages make/made that design choice?

# ¿ Feb 20, 2017 03:18

pangstrom: Jan 25, 2003; Wedge Regret

Thanks all. Yeah I'm sure if it were the first thing I picked up I wouldn't be making this mistake so much (and I think I will do better going forward now that I have this conversation tagged to it).

# ¿ Feb 20, 2017 19:43

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