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a = ('a','b','c','d') print type(a) <type 'tuple'> b = a[1:] print b ('b', 'c', 'd') print type(b) <type 'tuple'>
-- Andy McKay. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Chris Withers" <chrisw@nipltd.com> To: "Andy McKay" <andym@activestate.com>; "Brian Lloyd" <brian@digicool.com> Cc: <zope-dev@zope.org> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 10:18 AM Subject: Re: [Zope-dev] manage_options in 2.3
2.3. The problem is the [2:] which for some reason doesnt want to work, when I thought I was accesing a simple tuple.
You can't slice tuples, IIRC, which would explain why that bit fails.
cheers,
Chris