Python KWIC

kwic.py

wordstring = 'it was the best of times it was the worst of times '
wordstring += 'it was the age of wisdom it was the age of foolishness'
wordlist = wordstring.split()
print wordlist[0:4]
-> ['it', 'was', 'the', 'best']

print wordlist[0:6]
-> ['it', 'was', 'the', 'best', 'of', 'times']

print wordlist[6:10]
-> ['it', 'was', 'the', 'worst']

print wordlist[0:12]
-> ['it', 'was', 'the', 'best', 'of', 'times', 'it', 'was', 'the', 'worst', 'of', 'times']

print wordlist[:12]
-> ['it', 'was', 'the', 'best', 'of', 'times', 'it', 'was', 'the', 'worst', 'of', 'times']

print wordlist[12:]
-> ['it', 'was', 'the', 'age', 'of', 'wisdom', 'it', 'was', 'the', 'age', 'of', 'foolishness']