Python Quiz!
Answer:
The above code will output [], and will not result in an IndexError.
As one would expect, attempting to access a member of a list using an index that exceeds the number of members (e.g., attempting to access list[10] in the list above) results in an IndexError. However, attempting to access a slice of a list at a starting index that exceeds the number of members in the list will not result in an IndexError and will simply return an empty list.
What makes this a particularly nasty gotcha is that it can lead to bugs that are really hard to track down since no error is raised at runtime.
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