[Python-ideas] PEP pre-draft: Support for indexing with keyword arguments

[Sturla Molden]

Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, this is true. However, in practice many implementations of labeled
> arrays would have generic labeled axes, so they would need to use their own
> logic to do the mapping in __getitem__ anyways.

If you are thiniking about Pandas, then each keyword should be allowed to
take a slice as well.

dataframe[apples=1:3, oranges=2:6]


Sturla