enhancing slicing

[Will Ware]

gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk wrote:
> I'm not sure the the :][: operator would be appropriate here, but maybe 
> the variation v[:5 ][ -2:] could be made to work. [Talk of statring a PEP]

This can be made to work in Python 1.5.2:

>>> v = "abcdefgh"
>>> print v[:5 ][ -2:]
de

To start a PEP for this change, you'll need to borrow Guido's time machine.

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