slice's indices() method

[Fredrik Lundh]

smichr at gmail.com wrote:

> Is there any reason not to change the behavior of the indices() method
> so it gives indices that can be used in range (to give indices
> corresponding to elements that would be extracted by a given slice)
> *and* used as arguments for slices so that the slice with the new
> indices (obtained from the indices() method) would extract the same
> elements as the original slice from whence they were obtained?

and this month's "absolutely most pointless of all pointless proposals" 
award goes to...

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