[Python-Dev] Allowing slicing of iterators

[Raymond Hettinger]

> Iterators are for single sequential access. It's a feature that you
> have to import itertools (or at least that you have to invoke its
> special operations) -- iterators are not sequences and shouldn't be
> confused with such.

FWIW, someone (Bengt Richter perhaps) once suggested syntactic support
differentiated from sequences but less awkward than a call to
itertools.islice().

itertools.islice(someseq, lo, hi) would be rendered as someseq'[lo:hi].



Raymond