How about adding slice notation to iterators/generators?

[Terry Reedy]

Eloff wrote:
> I was just working with a generator for a tree that I wanted to skip
> the first result (root node.)

There is already an obvious standard way to do this.

it = <whatever>
next(it) #toss first item
for item in it:
  ....

> 
> And it occurs to me, why do we need to do:
> 
> import sys
> from itertools import islice
> 
> my_iter = islice(my_iter, 1, sys.maxint)
> 
> When we could simply add slice operations to generators?
> 
> for x in my_iter[1:]:
>     pass

1. islice works with any iterator; generator method would only work with 
generators
2. iterator protocol is intentionally simple.