From 2e82e717e666c13aebc063825cebc10af1c684f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:41:07 +0000 Subject: Changed the extended slice example to show that you can reverse a string with a [::-1] slice. --- Misc/NEWS | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS index aef5a24..767c3a5 100644 --- a/Misc/NEWS +++ b/Misc/NEWS @@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Core and builtins finally clause. [SF bug 567538] - Most builtin sequences now support "extended slices", i.e. slices - with a third "stride" parameter. For example, "range(10)[1:6:2]" - evaluates to [1, 3, 5]. + with a third "stride" parameter. For example, "hello world"[::-1] + gives "dlrow olleh". - Cycles going through the __class__ link of a new-style instance are now detected by the garbage collector. -- cgit v0.12