I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than
the length of the object. For example 'test'[:50]
'test' 'test'[40:50]
''
I'd rather expected to be confronted with an IndexError.
(This is actually described in http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html, so my expectation was wrong :))
Does anybody know, why this is preferred to just raising an error? 2 1085
"Stephan Diehl" <st***********@ gmx.net> wrote in message
news:pa******** *************** *****@gmx.net.. . I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than the length of the object. For example 'test'[:50] 'test' 'test'[40:50] '' I'd rather expected to be confronted with an IndexError. (This is actually described in http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq.html,
in footnote 4
.so my expectation was wrong :)) Does anybody know, why this is preferred to just raising an error?
Slicing was intentially designed to always give an answer (given int
coords) and never say 'can't answer' (whether by exception or a None
return). This avoids having to call len() when you don't care and avoids
having to use try:...except:. .. or conditionalize the code when it is not
needed. For instance c=s[0:1] is equivalent to
c=s[0:min(1,len(s))] # if slice had to be exact, or
c = s and s[0] or '' # or
if s:
c = s[0]
else:
c = '' # or
try:
c = s[0]
except IndexError:
c = ''
People occasionally post buggy code which simply needs s[0] changed to
s[0:1].
The form s[i:], which I am sure you agree is useful, is effectively
equivalent to eithers[i:len(s)] or s[i:<maxint>]. The latter view
generalizes to iterables without a knowable length.
Terry J. Reedy
On Mon, 05 Sep 2005 14:26:14 -0400, Terry Reedy wrote: "Stephan Diehl" <st***********@ gmx.net> wrote in message news:pa******** *************** *****@gmx.net.. .I just found out by accident, that slice indices can be larger than the length of the object. For example> 'test'[:50] 'test'
[...] Does anybody know, why this is preferred to just raising an error?
Slicing was intentially designed to always give an answer (given int coords) and never say 'can't answer' (whether by exception or a None return). This avoids having to call len() when you don't care and avoids having to use try:...except:. .. or conditionalize the code when it is not needed. For instance c=s[0:1] is equivalent to
c=s[0:min(1,len(s))] # if slice had to be exact, or
c = s and s[0] or '' # or
if s: c = s[0] else: c = '' # or
try: c = s[0] except IndexError: c = ''
People occasionally post buggy code which simply needs s[0] changed to s[0:1].
The form s[i:], which I am sure you agree is useful, is effectively equivalent to eithers[i:len(s)] or s[i:<maxint>]. The latter view generalizes to iterables without a knowable length.
I do think that this is useful and can save some lines of code.
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