> It seems altogether surprising that with an empty list or tuple a, a[1] results in index error, yet a[1:] quietly returns an empty list or tuple.
`a[1:]` returns the sequence of elements that start at index 1. If there is no such element, the list is empty. I don’t see any good reason why this should throw an error.
`a[1:]` returns the sequence of elements that start at index 1. If there is no such element, the list is empty. I don’t see any good reason why this should throw an error.