Python/sage: can lists start at index 1?

Question

I\'ve downloaded from a supposedly serious source a sage script. It doesn\'t work on my computer, and a quick debugging showed that a problem came from the fact that at some

Answer 1

A simple class that shifts the index for you provides a clean interface to something reusable.

class Array(object):

    def __init__(self, items: list) -> None:
        self.items = items

    def __repr__(self) -> str:
        return '{}({})'.format(self.__class__.__name__, self.items)

    def __len__(self) -> int:
        return len(self.items)

    def __contains__(self, item: any) -> bool:
        return item in self.items

    def __getitem__(self, key: int) -> any:
        return self.items[key - 1]

    def __setitem__(self, key: int, value: any) -> None:
        self.items[key - 1] = value

    def __delitem__(self, key: int) -> None:
        del self.items[key - 1]