The indices method of slice doesn't seem to work quite how I would
expect when reversing a sequence.
For example :
>>s = '01234' s[::-1]
'43210'
>>s[slice(None,None ,-1) ]
'43210'
So a slice with a negative step (and nothing else) reverses the
sequence. But what are the
corresponding indices?
>>slice(None,No ne,-1).indices(len( s))
(4, -1, -1)
That looks O.K. The start is the last item in the sequence, and the
stop is one before the beginning of the sequence. But these indices
don't reverse the string:
>>s[4:-1:-1]
''
Although they give the correct range:
>>range( 4, -1,-1)
[4, 3, 2, 1, 0]
It would appear that there is no set of indices that will both reverse
the string and produce the correct range!
Is this a bug or a feature?
GEC
See also: http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/what...on-slices.html 3 2120 Ga*********@gma il.com wrote:
The indices method of slice doesn't seem to work quite how I would
expect when reversing a sequence.
For example :
>>>s = '01234' s[::-1]
'43210'
>>>s[slice(None,None ,-1) ]
'43210'
So a slice with a negative step (and nothing else) reverses the
sequence. But what are the
corresponding indices?
>>>slice(None,N one,-1).indices(len( s))
(4, -1, -1)
That looks O.K. The start is the last item in the sequence, and the
stop is one before the beginning of the sequence. But these indices
don't reverse the string:
>>>s[4:-1:-1]
''
Although they give the correct range:
>>>range( 4, -1,-1)
[4, 3, 2, 1, 0]
It would appear that there is no set of indices that will both reverse
the string and produce the correct range!
Is this a bug or a feature?
I'd say bug in the .indices() method. The meaning of [4:-1:-1] is unavoidable
different than [::-1] since the index -1 points to the last element, not the
imaginary element before the first element. Unfortunately, there *is* no
concrete (start, stop, step) tuple that will emulate [::-1].
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
Robert Kern wrote:
I'd say bug in the .indices() method. The meaning of [4:-1:-1] is unavoidable
different than [::-1] since the index -1 points to the last element, not the
imaginary element before the first element. Unfortunately, there *is* no
concrete (start, stop, step) tuple that will emulate [::-1].
After some more experimenting, it seems that [L-1:-L-1:-1] will reverse
a sequence of length L. But slice(L-1,-L-1,-1).indices(L) gives (L-1,
-1,-1) which will not reverse the sequence. And range(L-1, -L-1, -1) is
totally off, but range(L-1,-1,-1) is correct.
Seems like a bug (or an odd feature) of extended slicing of strings and
other built in sequences.
GEC Ga*********@gma il.com wrote:
Robert Kern wrote:
>I'd say bug in the .indices() method. The meaning of [4:-1:-1] is unavoidable different than [::-1] since the index -1 points to the last element, not the imaginary element before the first element. Unfortunately, there *is* no concrete (start, stop, step) tuple that will emulate [::-1].
After some more experimenting, it seems that [L-1:-L-1:-1] will reverse
a sequence of length L.
Ah, yes. Good point.
But slice(L-1,-L-1,-1).indices(L) gives (L-1,
-1,-1) which will not reverse the sequence. And range(L-1, -L-1, -1) is
totally off, but range(L-1,-1,-1) is correct.
Seems like a bug (or an odd feature) of extended slicing of strings and
other built in sequences.
It's not a bug with extended slicing. -1 has a very definite meaning when used
as an index. The result of applying [4:-1:-1] is completely consistent with that
meaning. The problem is with .indices() for giving you something that is
inconsistent with that meaning. range() is neither here nor there; it's
semantics are simply different.
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
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