Why doesn't negative values for the second index in a jagged array work in Python?

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Published on 2010-05-15T02:44:58Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 2:54 UTC
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For example, if I have the following (data from Project Euler):

s = [[75],
     [95, 64],
     [17, 47, 82],
     [18, 35, 87, 10],
     [20, 4, 82, 47, 65],
     [19, 1, 23, 75, 3, 34],
     [88, 2, 77, 73, 7, 63, 67],
     [99, 65, 4, 28, 6, 16, 70, 92],
     [41, 41, 26, 56, 83, 40, 80, 70, 33],
     [41, 48, 72, 33, 47, 32, 37, 16, 94, 29],
     [53, 71, 44, 65, 25, 43, 91, 52, 97, 51, 14],
     [70, 11, 33, 28, 77, 73, 17, 78, 39, 68, 17, 57],
     [91, 71, 52, 38, 17, 14, 91, 43, 58, 50, 27, 29, 48],
     [63, 66, 4, 68,89, 53, 67, 30, 73, 16, 69, 87, 40, 31],
     [4, 62, 98, 27, 23, 9, 70, 98, 73, 93, 38, 53, 60, 4, 23]]

Why does s[1:][:-1] give me the same thing as s[1:] instead of (what I want) [s[i][:-1] for i in range(1,len(s))]. In other words, why does Python ignore my second index?

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