这里有一个简单的记忆方法，可以记住它是如何工作的：

S L*I*C*E*切片的“i”位于第一位，代表包容，“e”排在最后，代表独占。

所以array[j:k]将包括第j个元素，并排除第k个元素。

枚举序列x语法允许的可能性：

>>> x[:]                # [x[0],   x[1],          ..., x[-1]    ]
>>> x[low:]             # [x[low], x[low+1],      ..., x[-1]    ]
>>> x[:high]            # [x[0],   x[1],          ..., x[high-1]]
>>> x[low:high]         # [x[low], x[low+1],      ..., x[high-1]]
>>> x[::stride]         # [x[0],   x[stride],     ..., x[-1]    ]
>>> x[low::stride]      # [x[low], x[low+stride], ..., x[-1]    ]
>>> x[:high:stride]     # [x[0],   x[stride],     ..., x[high-1]]
>>> x[low:high:stride]  # [x[low], x[low+stride], ..., x[high-1]]

当然，如果（高低）%步幅！=0，则终点将略低于高1。

如果步幅为负，则由于我们正在倒计时，顺序会有点改变：

>>> x[::-stride]        # [x[-1],   x[-1-stride],   ..., x[0]    ]
>>> x[high::-stride]    # [x[high], x[high-stride], ..., x[0]    ]
>>> x[:low:-stride]     # [x[-1],   x[-1-stride],   ..., x[low+1]]
>>> x[high:low:-stride] # [x[high], x[high-stride], ..., x[low+1]]

扩展切片（带逗号和省略号）通常仅用于特殊数据结构（如NumPy）；基本序列不支持它们。

>>> class slicee:
...     def __getitem__(self, item):
...         return repr(item)
...
>>> slicee()[0, 1:2, ::5, ...]
'(0, slice(1, 2, None), slice(None, None, 5), Ellipsis)'

当我第一次看到切片语法时，有一些事情不是很明显：

>>> x = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
>>> x[::-1]
[6,5,4,3,2,1]

反转顺序的简单方法！

如果出于某种原因，您希望以相反的顺序进行每一项：

>>> x = [1,2,3,4,5,6]
>>> x[::-2]
[6,4,2]

通常，使用大量硬编码索引值编写代码会提高可读性以及维护混乱。例如，如果一年后你回到代码，你会看看它，想知道你写的时候在想什么只是一种更清楚地说明代码实际在做什么的方式。通常，内置slice（）创建一个切片对象，可以在切片的任何位置使用允许。例如：

>>> items = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> a = slice(2, 4)
>>> items[2:4]
[2, 3]
>>> items[a]
[2, 3]
>>> items[a] = [10,11]
>>> items
[0, 1, 10, 11, 4, 5, 6]
>>> del items[a]
>>> items
[0, 1, 4, 5, 6]

如果您有一个切片实例，您可以通过查看它的s.start、s.stop和s.step属性。例如：

>>>a=切片（10、50、2）>>>a.启动10>>>a.停止50>>>a.台阶2.>>>

如果你觉得切片中的负指数令人困惑，这里有一个非常简单的方法来考虑：用len-index替换负指数。例如，用len（list）-3替换-3。

说明切片在内部做什么的最佳方法是在实现此操作的代码中显示它：

def slice(list, start = None, end = None, step = 1):
  # Take care of missing start/end parameters
  start = 0 if start is None else start
  end = len(list) if end is None else end

  # Take care of negative start/end parameters
  start = len(list) + start if start < 0 else start
  end = len(list) + end if end < 0 else end

  # Now just execute a for-loop with start, end and step
  return [list[i] for i in range(start, end, step)]

#!/usr/bin/env python

def slicegraphical(s, lista):

    if len(s) > 9:
        print """Enter a string of maximum 9 characters,
    so the printig would looki nice"""
        return 0;
    # print " ",
    print '  '+'+---' * len(s) +'+'
    print ' ',
    for letter in s:
        print '| {}'.format(letter),
    print '|'
    print " ",; print '+---' * len(s) +'+'

    print " ",
    for letter in range(len(s) +1):
        print '{}  '.format(letter),
    print ""
    for letter in range(-1*(len(s)), 0):
        print ' {}'.format(letter),
    print ''
    print ''


    for triada in lista:
        if len(triada) == 3:
            if triada[0]==None and triada[1] == None and triada[2] == None:
                # 000
                print s+'[   :   :   ]' +' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]:triada[2]]
            elif triada[0] == None and triada[1] == None and triada[2] != None:
                # 001
                print s+'[   :   :{0:2d} ]'.format(triada[2], '','') +' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]:triada[2]]
            elif triada[0] == None and triada[1] != None and triada[2] == None:
                # 010
                print s+'[   :{0:2d} :   ]'.format(triada[1]) +' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]:triada[2]]
            elif triada[0] == None and triada[1] != None and triada[2] != None:
                # 011
                print s+'[   :{0:2d} :{1:2d} ]'.format(triada[1], triada[2]) +' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]:triada[2]]
            elif triada[0] != None and triada[1] == None and triada[2] == None:
                # 100
                print s+'[{0:2d} :   :   ]'.format(triada[0]) +' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]:triada[2]]
            elif triada[0] != None and triada[1] == None and triada[2] != None:
                # 101
                print s+'[{0:2d} :   :{1:2d} ]'.format(triada[0], triada[2]) +' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]:triada[2]]
            elif triada[0] != None and triada[1] != None and triada[2] == None:
                # 110
                print s+'[{0:2d} :{1:2d} :   ]'.format(triada[0], triada[1]) +' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]:triada[2]]
            elif triada[0] != None and triada[1] != None and triada[2] != None:
                # 111
                print s+'[{0:2d} :{1:2d} :{2:2d} ]'.format(triada[0], triada[1], triada[2]) +' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]:triada[2]]

        elif len(triada) == 2:
            if triada[0] == None and triada[1] == None:
                # 00
                print s+'[   :   ]    ' + ' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]]
            elif triada[0] == None and triada[1] != None:
                # 01
                print s+'[   :{0:2d} ]    '.format(triada[1]) + ' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]]
            elif triada[0] != None and triada[1] == None:
                # 10
                print s+'[{0:2d} :   ]    '.format(triada[0]) + ' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]]
            elif triada[0] != None and triada[1] != None:
                # 11
                print s+'[{0:2d} :{1:2d} ]    '.format(triada[0],triada[1]) + ' = ', s[triada[0]:triada[1]]

        elif len(triada) == 1:
            print s+'[{0:2d} ]        '.format(triada[0]) + ' = ', s[triada[0]]


if __name__ == '__main__':
    # Change "s" to what ever string you like, make it 9 characters for
    # better representation.
    s = 'COMPUTERS'

    # add to this list different lists to experement with indexes
    # to represent ex. s[::], use s[None, None,None], otherwise you get an error
    # for s[2:] use s[2:None]

    lista = [[4,7],[2,5,2],[-5,1,-1],[4],[-4,-6,-1], [2,-3,1],[2,-3,-1], [None,None,-1],[-5,None],[-5,0,-1],[-5,None,-1],[-1,1,-2]]

    slicegraphical(s, lista)

你可以运行这个脚本并进行实验，下面是我从脚本中获得的一些示例。

  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  | C | O | M | P | U | T | E | R | S |
  +---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+---+
  0   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   
 -9  -8  -7  -6  -5  -4  -3  -2  -1 

COMPUTERS[ 4 : 7 ]     =  UTE
COMPUTERS[ 2 : 5 : 2 ] =  MU
COMPUTERS[-5 : 1 :-1 ] =  UPM
COMPUTERS[ 4 ]         =  U
COMPUTERS[-4 :-6 :-1 ] =  TU
COMPUTERS[ 2 :-3 : 1 ] =  MPUT
COMPUTERS[ 2 :-3 :-1 ] =  
COMPUTERS[   :   :-1 ] =  SRETUPMOC
COMPUTERS[-5 :   ]     =  UTERS
COMPUTERS[-5 : 0 :-1 ] =  UPMO
COMPUTERS[-5 :   :-1 ] =  UPMOC
COMPUTERS[-1 : 1 :-2 ] =  SEUM
[Finished in 0.9s]

当使用否定步骤时，请注意答案向右移动1。