Top and Bottom Values [PEP: 326]

[Sion Arrowsmith]

Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo at geek-central.gen.new_zealand> wrote:
>In message <slrnehk7ju.rcu.apardon at rcpc42.vub.ac.be>, Antoon Pardon wrote:
>> I need this Top value in
>> a context where it can be used as a start or stop value
>> in a slice.
>But the only valid values allowed for indices are 0

>>> range(5)[:-1]
[0, 1, 2, 3]

>  up to the length of the
>array inclusive. Larger integers are not allowed, [ ... ]

>>> range(5)[:sys.maxint]
[0, 1, 2, 3, 4]

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