Why Python does *SLICING* the way it does??

[Roy Smith]

In article <3cr2cnF6locm6U2 at individual.net>,
 Greg Ewing <greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:

> Roy Smith wrote:
> 
> > What would actually be cool is if Python were to support the normal math 
> > notation for open or closed intervals.
>  >
> > foo = bar (1, 2)
> > foo = bar (1, 2]
> > foo = bar [1, 2)
> > foo = bar [1, 2]
> > 
> > That would certainly solve this particular problem, but the cost to the 
> > rest of the language syntax would be rather high :-)
> 
> Not to mention the sanity of everyone's editors when
> they try to do bracket matching!

I have no doubt that somebody could teach emacs python-mode to correctly 
match half-open interval brackets.