> > On 03/21/2012 07:39 PM, Huan Do wrote: > > *Hi,
> > > > I am a graduating Berkeley student that loves python and would like to > > propose an enhancement to python. My proposal introduces a concept of > > slicing generator. For instance, if one does x[:] it returns a list > > which is a copy of x. Sometimes programmers would want to iterate over a > > slice of x, but they do not like the overhead of constructing another > > list. Instead we can create a similar operator that returns a generator. > > My proposed syntax is x(:). The programmers are of course able to set > lower, upper, and step size like the following. -1 on the syntax And have you looked at itertools.islice ?
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