[Python-Dev] Built in objects supporting slices (original) (raw)

Guido van Rossum guido@python.org
Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:20:29 -0400

At the moment, built in objects such as lists don't support the slice notaton l[a:b:c]. Would there be support for including this in Python 2.3? If so, what would be the necessary procedure? Would this require a PEP?

Alex Martelli has offered to do the code, if someone will champion the work. I'm happy to do this, but I don't have commit privileges, so it would require someone else to actually commit any changes. I presume that the correct approach would be to submit the changes as a patch to SourceForge?

Yes. No PEP is needed, but I'm -0 on the idea -- I don't see what use there is for this besides theoretical neatness; I'm sure it complicates a lot of code.

IOW What's the use case?

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