Re: "...Learning with Python" ...a property that addition andmultiplication have...
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Re: "...Learning with Python" ...a property that addition andmultiplication have...

From: Steven Bethard <steven.bethard@gmail.com>
Date: Thu May 26 2005 - 22:22:04 CEST



GMane Python wrote:


> string repetition can not repeat a value negative times:


> 'hello' * -3 is invalid.



Well, it's not invalid:



py> 'a' * -1


''


py> 'a' * -42


''



but you could definitely say that


     S * N1 == S * N2


does not imply that


     N1 == N2



STeVe


Received on Thu Sep 29 16:14:32 2005