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Why wold you want to get a subarray starting at the length of the array (a[len(a):])? Shouldn't this just return an empty subarray always since there are no elements after index len(a) - 1?

Ozymandias
– Ozymandias

2020-06-13 01:10:41 +00:00
Commented Jun 13, 2020 at 1:10
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@AjaxLeung empty slices are useful because you can assign to them: a = list(range(0,10)) print('a\t', a) # [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] print('slice\t', a[3:3]) # [] a[3:3] = [10,10,10] print('new a\t', a) # [0, 1, 2, 10, 10, 10, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]

Tim Smith
– Tim Smith

2021-01-30 02:46:15 +00:00
Commented Jan 30, 2021 at 2:46

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