On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 13:07 +0100, Amit Dubey wrote:
> On 10/25/05, Brian Brunswick <brian.brunswick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 25/10/05, Amit Dubey <amit.dubey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I see the problem. I think there may be another problem if
> first < -(length
> > s). Is it best to fix these bugs, or change the
> documentation?
> >
>
> My opinion would be fix the problem, since we already have
> String.sub
> to throw exceptions.
>
>
> OK, but this raises two questions:
> (1) what would be the behaviour when (length s) <= i < 2 * (length
> s). Similar to when 0 > i > -1 * (length s) (i.e. substact length s)?
> (2) what about when i < -2 * (length s) or i >= 2 * (length s)?
> (Where i = first/last)
>
What Python does. See the Python reference manual.
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