Why are slice and range upper-bound exclusive?

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The documentation implies this has a few useful properties:

word[:2]    # The first two characters
word[2:]    # Everything except the first two characters

Here’s a useful invariant of slice operations: s[:i] + s[i:] equals s.

For non-negative indices, the length of a slice is the difference of the indices, if both are within bounds. For example, the length of word[1:3] is 2.

I think we can assume that the range functions act the same for consistency.

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