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| Jun 7, 2016 at 21:32 | comment | added | farhadf | One thing that tripped me up is that while for array x, x[-1] refers to the last element, x[-2:-1] does not refer to the last 2 elements, but rather just the second-to-last element. For Ruby programmers in particular, this is a common pitfall because you're used to having -1 be the last element and the .. notation is inclusive, i.e. x[-2..-1] returns the last 2 elements. The python colon ':' is actually the ruby triple-dot '...' | |
| Jul 9, 2012 at 9:52 | vote | accept | wap26 | ||
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| Jul 6, 2012 at 14:59 | history | answered | Toomai | CC BY-SA 3.0 |