I'm curious what the book said the use case for that was 😀
[:] makes a #copy of the entire string - or other #sequence. But strings in Python are #immutable; if you just do stringA = stringB, you'll get exactly the same behaviour - if someone else "modifies" B, they're actually creating a new object, and stringA will still refer to the original.
Copying a substring with [x:y] (optionally omitting one of them) is common and useful. But the whole thing... ?
It is fascinating that we get a bunch of biological #sequence#aligners to choose from in #bioinformatics , but no standardized terminology of their modes, or API (you can find a bewildering mix of libraries and CLI). This is gap for researchers who want to try different tools, and likely for companies in the #NGS#sequencing space too. The first is the reason I am flexing my #perl skills , leveraging the new lang features to create a standardized API for many of the recent tools. @Perl
Interested in how the nucleus reuniens organizes neural activity in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex supporting memory? #neuroscience#memory#hippocampus
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