Is there an easier way to express this list slicing?

[John Henry]

John Henry wrote:

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> Further, if splitUp is a sub-class of string, then I can do:
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> alist, blist, clist, dlist = "ABCDEFGHIJ".slice((1,1,3,None))
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> Now, can I override the slice operator?

Maybe like:

alist, blist, clist, dlist = newStr("ABCDEFGHIJ")[1,1,3,None]

where newStr is a sub-class of str, with a __repr__ that takes a
variable list of arguments?

(No clue how to code that yet, still pretty new to this)

Maybe they should make this a standard slicing feature....