zero-copy array slicing (and PEP 296)

[Trevor]

Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> wrote in message news:<ZQHC9.42060$Yw.1987239 at news2.tin.it>...
> 
> Me, I'd go with Numeric -- partly because it defies belief that
> somebody may need encryption and the like and NOT need some of
> the many other conveniences Numeric offer (I have not yet done
> any evaluation of whether the time is ripe to use Numarray in
> lieu of Numeric -- that's a separate choice).

That sounds like the way to go - support Numeric for in-place
subsequence operations but also support array.array and strings for
cases where those are more convenient, and zero-copy subsequence
operations aren't needed.  Thanks!

Trevor