[Python-ideas] str(slice(10)) should return "slice(10)"

[Ivan Levkivskyi]

On 12 November 2016 at 20:27, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:

> I thought of the use of `.__getitem__()` in metaclasses in the typing
> module.  I feel like this use is more natural and more useful than that.
> Should we someday need a slice generic type for PEP 484, the spelling would
> naturally be `Slice[T]` instead, in my mind.  But `slice[1:10,2]` should be
> a constructor for a concrete slice object.
>

Slice[T] vs slice[::-1] is coherent with what we have now for List[T] vs
list, etc.

--
Ivan
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