Ok, so it (EDIT FOR YOUR BENEFIT: I'm talking about slicing strings with rune indices here, not slicing in general. Array slicing is a useful language feature, and, uh, it's not unique to Python or anything) is not just a language wart, but a fertile source of pointless inefficiency in everyday Python code, glad to know.
>This might explain why my comments seem like heresy to you.
You aren't challenging my beliefs or anything, I'm just trying to make you see that you don't understand how UTF-8 string operations work very well. If you did, you'd understand that Python is doing the exact same thing as Go here, but in a less efficient manner.
The fact that it's used all the time would suggest it's not pointless inefficiency, no? Maybe you should try Python before bashing it.
>Python is doing the exact same thing as Go here, but in a less efficient manner.
It's not doing the same thing. "�є" is not the same as "єℓℓ".
This might explain why my comments seem like heresy to you. I would point out that the OP is about Python programmers switching to Go.