Iterators are for single sequential access. It's a feature that you have to import itertools (or at least that you have to invoke its special operations) -- iterators are not sequences and shouldn't be confused with such.
I agree the semantic difference between an iterable and an iterator is important, but I am unclear on why that needs to translate to a syntactic difference for slicing, when it doesn't translate to such a difference for iteration (despite the *major* difference in the effect upon the object that is iterated over). Are the semantics of slicing really that much more exact than those for iteration?
Also, would it make a difference if the ability to extract an individual item from an iterator through subscripting was disallowed? (i.e. getting the second item of an iterator being spelt "itr[2:3].next()" instead of "itr[2]")
Regards, Nick.
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