C3W2 Lab2 Python Slicing

[Brendon_Wolff-Piggot]

I battled with the Week 1 test / train data split. Looking at the second ungraded lab or week 2 I see the code splitting the lists of sentences seems to leave an overlap between the outputs:

Split the sentences

training_sentences = sentences[0:training_size]
testing_sentences = sentences[training_size:]

The first list extends up to and including training_size, and the second one starts with training_size? I’ve futzed around googling but this basic code still puzzles me…

[ai_curious]

https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#common-sequence-operations

s[i:j] slice of s from i to j

The slice of s from i to j is defined as the sequence of items with index k such that i <= k < j .

note the inequality operator before j