On 8/24/07, Robert Brewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Wouters wrote: > > The proposed solution, as implemented in the p3yk-noslice > > SVN branch, gets rid of the simple slicing methods and > > PyType entries. The simple C API (using ``Py_ssize_t`` > > for start and stop) remains, but creates a slice object > > as necessary instead. Various types had to be updated to > > support slice objects, or improve the simple slicing case > > of extended slicing. > > Am I reading this correctly, that: since the "simple C API > remains", one can still write S[3:8] with only one colon > and have it work as before? Or would it have to be rewritten > to include two colons?
Don't worry, this syntax won't go away; it will be executed differently. -- --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
