The colon, :, is what tells Python you're giving it a slice and not a regular index. That's why the idiomatic way of making a shallow copy of lists in Python 2 is

To my understanding, slice means lst[start:end], and including start, excluding end. So how would I go about finding the "rest" of a list starting from an element n?

Dec 13, 2023 · The index or slice is passed to the methods as a single argument, and the way Python does this is by converting the slice notation, (1:10:2, in this case) to a slice object: …

Jul 19, 2015 · Whenever some other code uses slice notation on your an instance of your class Python will call your __getitem__ method with a slice object. (Older versions of Python used a …

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I have a Pandas Data Frame object that has 1000 rows and 10 columns. I would simply like to slice the Data Frame and take the first 10 rows. How can I do this? I've been trying to use this: …

How do I split a list of arbitrary length into equal sized chunks? See also: How to iterate over a list in chunks. To chunk strings, see Split string every nth character?.

Aug 31, 2012 · 45 Python 3 only answer (that doesn't use slicing or throw away the rest of the list, but might be good enough anyway) is use unpacking generalizations to get first and last …

Jul 31, 2018 · Python strings are immutable. This means that you must create at least 1 new string in order to remove the comma, as opposed to editing the string in place in a language …

May 19, 2012 · 2017 Answer - pandas 0.20: .ix is deprecated. Use .loc See the deprecation in the docs .loc uses label based indexing to select both rows and columns. The labels being the …