[Python-Dev] Python-Dev Digest, Vol 104, Issue 79 (original) (raw)

Peter Harris pete.alex.harris at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 12:26:49 CET 2012

On 03/21/2012 07:39 PM, Huan Do wrote:

> *Hi,

>

> I am a graduating Berkeley student that loves python and would like to

> propose an enhancement to python. My proposal introduces a concept of

> slicing generator. For instance, if one does x[:] it returns a list

> which is a copy of x. Sometimes programmers would want to iterate over a

> slice of x, but they do not like the overhead of constructing another

> list. Instead we can create a similar operator that returns a generator.

> My proposed syntax is x(:). The programmers are of course able to set lower, upper, and step size like the following.

-1 on the syntax

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