Iterator slicing?

[Magnus Lie Hetland]

Just a thought -- not sure exactly how to implement it (to avoid
conflicts with __getitem__, for instance) -- but what if iterators
were subscriptable? E.g. someiter[5:10] would return a new iteratr
which first (automatically) iterated over someiter's first five
elements (without returning them), then behave like a normal iterator
for the next five items, and then raised a StopIteration...?
Similarly, indexing an iterator could return a single value,
perhaps...

Or perhaps this is better suited for a specific wrapper in the
(possibly) upcoming iterator module... Hm.

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