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Author r.david.murray
Recipients benjamin.peterson, docs@python, ezio.melotti, lemburg, martin.panter, pitrou, r.david.murray, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, swanson, veky, vstinner
Date 2017-09-18.21:10:09
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I'm not Raymond, but he is correct.  This is an example of "taking advantage of the corner cases", and is something Python does a lot of, especially around strings and slices.  The current behavior was carefully considered and has useful properties.
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