[Python-Dev] Re: PEP239 (Rational Numbers) Reference Implementation and new issues (original) (raw)

Tim Peters tim.one@comcast.net
Thu, 03 Oct 2002 22:34:00 -0400

[Delaney, Timothy]

... Actually, following through my thought processes, x:y is only legal in the context of a sequence slice i.e. inside [].

Dicts are worse. {1:2:3} would be hopelessly ambiguous.