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

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Tue, 30 Apr 2002 21:29:56 +0200

guido wrote:

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?

the only use case I can think of is python training -- for some reason, my students always ask for this, and it's a bit annoying having to explain that "there's a syntax for this, but it doesn't work".

except for that, I miss this about once every five years...