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

In [1]: index_0 = ['foo', 'bar', 'quux']

In [2]: index_1 = [None] + index_0

In [3]: index_1[1]
Out[3]: 'foo'

In [4]: index_1[1:]
Out[4]: ['foo', 'bar', 'quux']