enhancing slicing

[Duncan Booth]

gbreed at cix.compulink.co.uk wrote in news:9m31fp$27s$1 at thorium.cix.co.uk:

>> My proposal is to introduce a new operator, for instance # (count):
>> v[5 # 2]
>> Extract 2 elements starting at 5: [ v[5], v[6] ]. Equivalent to v[5:5+2]
> 
> I don't think # is right, because it's already used for comments.  But 
> perhaps :][: would do the trick.  So it'd be v[5 :][: 2].  It's more 
> complex, but looks nice.  And doesn't introduce any new punctuation into 
> the language.  Shall I start on the PEP?

What is wrong with just defining yourself a function to do this? Not 
everything has to be done with operators:
   def enhslice(seq, low, len):
       return seq[low:low+len]
seems to do everything you are asking for, and has the benefit of being 
available today, and not complicating the language.

-- 
Duncan Booth                                             duncan at rcp.co.uk
int month(char *p){return(124864/((p[0]+p[1]-p[2]&0x1f)+1)%12)["\5\x8\3"
"\6\7\xb\1\x9\xa\2\0\4"];} // Who said my code was obscure?