Let's create next variable: weather = 'light raining' Now let's try to print next part of string: print(weather[-1:4]) Result is empty string. As expected. Now let's try to print this string: print(weather[-1:]) Expected: empty string Got: 'g' Note: same behavior gives us print(weather[-1]). However [-1] is expected to return 'g', while [-1:] is expected to return empty string, same as [-1:4]. If it's not a bug but feature, could somebody please explain me how starting position can be minus? And why in one case ([-1:4]) it's work as expected returns empty string, while in another ([-1:]) it returns value? CPython version tested on: 3.13 Operating system tested on: Windows 11 Continue reading...
