On 8/29/06, Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nick Coghlan wrote: > > > reversed(seq[start:stop:step]) becomes > > seq[(stop-1)%abs(step):start-1:-step] > > > > An rslice builtin would make the latter version significantly easier to > > read: > > > > seq[rslice(start, stop, step)] > > How would this deal with omitted start and/or stop values?
More generally, given start/stop/step don't have to be numbers, how can this work in general? I don't actually see a need for this, given that reversed(seq[start:stop:step]) covers all of the real use cases I can think of... Paul. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
