I do not quite understand why a slice of a list does not throw an exception, when the low index is larger than the length of the list. Instead an empty list is returned.
>> [1, 2, 3][1000:]
[]
Why is this?
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2this is by design. – Jean-François Fabre Oct 05 '18 at 11:13
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1I closed as duplicate, the answers provide all the use cases, your question is covered, I feel that there's no need to clutter the site with more answers. thanks to other goldbadge owners for adding more relevant dupes. – Jean-François Fabre Oct 05 '18 at 11:15
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that's the default behaviour https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#common-sequence-operations – deadvoid Oct 05 '18 at 11:17