[docs] Python doc bug?

Tue Mar 6 03:28:21 CET 2012

http://docs.python.org/tutorial/introduction.html#lists
I'm new to Python, so I'm trying to understand this list index stuff, but it looks to me like:
>>> a = ['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1234]

>>> a

['spam', 'eggs', 100, 1234]
Like string indices, list indices start at 0, and lists can be sliced, concatenated and so on:
>>>
>>> a[0]

'spam'
>>> a[3]

1234
>>> a[-2]

100
>>> a[1:-1]

['eggs', 100] Shouldn't that last item be 1234?
>>> a[:2] + ['bacon', 2*2]

['spam', 'eggs', 'bacon', 4] Isn't [:2] to mean 'from start (0) to 2, thus first 3 elements, so should be 100 between eggs an bacon?
>>> 3*a[:3] + ['Boo!']

['spam', 'eggs', 100, 'spam', 'eggs', 100, 'spam', 'eggs', 100, 'Boo!'] Doesn't [:3] mean 'from 0 to 3' thus 4 items should be repeated?
It looks like whoever wrote this intended the number after the colon to mean 'count', but according to this: http://www.korokithakis.net/tutorials/python/
the number after the colon is the end-index. If it were the count, the first line I've highlighted would make no sense at all.
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