[Python-Dev] Re: Allowing slicing of iterators

2005-01-26 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Guido van Rossum wrote: I'd like to see iterators become as easy to work with as lists are. At the moment, anything that returns an iterator forces you to use the relatively cumbersome itertools.islice mechanism, rather than Python's native slice syntax. Sorry. Still -1. can we perhaps

[Python-Dev] Re: Allowing slicing of iterators

2005-01-25 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Guido van Rossum wrote: As a trivial example, here's how to skip the head of a zero-numbered list: for i, item in enumerate(ABCDEF)[1:]: print i, item Is this idea a non-starter, or should I spend my holiday on Wednesday finishing it off and writing the documentation and tests