I noticed the following weird behavior:
>> str_ = '' # empty string
>> str_[0:]
''
>> str_[0]
IndexError: string index out of range
Is there some kind of reasoning for this?
My interpretation of the current return value of slicing is:
from position X onwards (and up until Y with a step of Z) there is
''to be found.
which clearly means that there are no characters in the specified interval and thus the string is smaller than (X+1) characters long.
Similarly, one could treat indexing the same way and say:
at position X of string there is
''to be found.
which would also clearly mean that there is nothing there to be found.
but that is not the case. Indexing is treated differently and I am wondering why.
