Slicing is extremely confusing

Question

I recently learned indexing and to me that was a breeze but slicing confuses me deeply. I thought you could just apply the indexing rules to slicing. Can someone help me understand this better please?

Answer 1

[start:stop:step size]

start is inclusive
stop is exclusive

all are integers.

Answer 2

I hope these small tutorials will help you a little bit more:

https://www.w3schools.com/JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK/python_strings_slicing.asp
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/slicing-and-indexing-in-python/

the start character is inclusive, the end character is exclusive (in python too, but not in all languages)

Answer 3

Tag the relevant programming language

Answer 4

Lisa updated

Answer 5

I wish the lesson said, for example, [0:3] will only include 0 through 2, but not 3. When explained that way, it makes total sense to me. I had to go to YouTube to understand slicing. Lisa i haven't learned step size, so I have no idea what that is

Answer 6

Mihaly Nyilas thank you!