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So you're saying a negative index value should work like a count of elements to return and not an index? Then you couldn't do thing like l[-4:-2] to get a rang

So you're saying a negative index value should work like a count of elements to return and not an index? Then you couldn't do thing like l[-4:-2] to get a range of elements which seems slightly useful.

pansa2 2y ago
No - negative indexing is fine as it is. You just need to be careful about the special case of negative zero.