Forrest Voight wrote: > Slice objects that are produced in a list index area would be different, > and optionally the syntax for slices in list indexes would be expanded > to work everywhere.
Something like this was quite close to getting in a while back, but it was eventually dropped. Anyone advocating this should probably look back over the discussion and find out why. I think they were to be called "range expressions" or something like that. A point to consider is that iterating over a range of integers is actually quite a rare thing to do in idiomatic Python. It's much more common to iterate directly over a sequence of things you want to operate on. This is even more true now that we have enumerate(). So this proposal is addressing a fairly small set of use cases. -- Greg _______________________________________________ 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
