From: "Bernard Delmée" <bdelmee@...>
Date: 2003-11-17T12:11:34+09:00
Subject: Re: substring: to the end of the string

> my solution:
> str[3..-1] which seems quite odd :-/

The idiom in python is str[3:]
Conversely, str[:3] gives you the 3 1st chars.

Read the explanation of slicing operations here:
http://www.python.org/doc/current/lib/typesseq.html
(read note 4 & 5)

And beware, 'str' is a builtin, hence a poor choice as a variable name.

Have fun,

Bernard.