From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:41:07 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Changed the extended slice example to show that you can reverse a
X-Git-Tag: v2.3c1~5359
X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2e82e717e666c13aebc063825cebc10af1c684f0;p=python

Changed the extended slice example to show that you can reverse a
string with a [::-1] slice.
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diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index aef5a24b2f..767c3a578f 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ Core and builtins
   finally clause.  [SF bug 567538]
 
 - Most builtin sequences now support "extended slices", i.e. slices
-  with a third "stride" parameter.  For example, "range(10)[1:6:2]"
-  evaluates to [1, 3, 5].
+  with a third "stride" parameter.  For example, "hello world"[::-1]
+  gives "dlrow olleh".
 
 - Cycles going through the __class__ link of a new-style instance are
   now detected by the garbage collector.