enhancing slicing

[Mikael Olofsson]

On 23-Aug-2001 gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
 >  v[5 :][: 2]

Yuck!

 >  v[:5 ][ -2:]

Double yuck!!
 
Besides being ugly (for your purpose), it's already valid syntax:

>>> v=[[1,2,3],[4,5,6],[7,8,9]]
>>> v[1:][:1]
[[4, 5, 6]]
>>> v[:1][1:]
[]

 >  Shall I start on the PEP?

Please don't. Spend your time on something that at least has a slight
chance of being accepted instead. See other comments in this thread.

/Mikael

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