sequence multiplied by -1

Sun Sep 26 08:41:49 EDT 2010

"Yingjie Lan" <lanyjie at yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi,
>> I noticed that in python3k, multiplying a sequence by a negative integer 
> is the same as multiplying it by 0, and the result is an empty sequence. 
> It seems to me that there is a more meaningful symantics.
>> Simply put, a sequence multiplied by -1 can give a reversed sequence.
>> Then for any sequence "seq", and integer n>0, we can have
>> "seq * -n" producing "(seq * -1) * n".
>> Any thoughts?

Gimmicky.
Best to define multiplication only by unsigned or positive values.
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Bartc