[Python-3000] What about operator.*slice? (original) (raw)

Brett Cannon brett at python.org
Tue Sep 4 20:08:53 CEST 2007


On 9/4/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:

Since x[a:b] is not basic syntax (like it once was) but simply the combination of operator.getitem and slice() I don't see the point of keeping operator.getitem.

PS. I don't know how useful the operator module really is -- in all those years it's existed I haven't really used it myself, and I'm always baffled when I see code using it.

The only great use I have found for it myself is attrgetter and itemgetter, but those were added by Raymond in 2.5 (I think). Otherwise I never use it.

-Brett



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