On 12 November 2016 at 10:26, Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:
> But let's make str() of a slice more suggestive of actual slicing, and > as a bonus, make slices easier to create too. > > str(slice(None, None, None)) => "slice[:]" > > Let the slice type itself be sliceable, as an alternate constuctor: > > slice[:] => returns slice(None) > slice[start:] => returns slice(start, None) > slice[:end] => returns slice(None, end) > slice[start::step] => returns slice(start, None, step) > > and so forth. (This probably would require changing the type of slice to > a new metaclass.) > > And then have str() return the compact slice syntax. > +1, I like this idea, this is very close to what NumPy does. I would also mention http://bugs.python.org/issue24379 -- Ivan
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