[Python-Dev] PEP for adding an sq_index slot so that any object, a or b, can be used in X[a:b] notation (original) (raw)

Mark Russell mrussell at verio.net
Fri Feb 10 14:08:39 CET 2006

On 10 Feb 2006, at 12:45, Nick Coghlan wrote:

An alternative would be to call it "discrete", as that is the key characteristic of an indexing type - it consists of a sequence of discrete values that can be isomorphically mapped to the integers.

Another alternative: as_ordinal. Wikipedia describes ordinals as
"numbers used to denote the position in an ordered sequence" which
seems a pretty precise description of the intended result. The "as_"
prefix also captures the idea that this should be a lossless conversion.

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