I thought of the use of `.__getitem__()` in metaclasses in the typing module. I feel like this use is more natural and more useful than that. Should we someday need a slice generic type for PEP 484, the spelling would naturally be `Slice[T]` instead, in my mind. But `slice[1:10,2]` should be a constructor for a concrete slice object.
On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 11:20 AM, אלעזר <elaz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 9:10 PM David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > >> >> dfmi.loc[slice[:,:,['C1','C3']], slice[:,'foo']] >> >> >> I like the change proposed to `str(slice(10))` also... and it would be >> way better if `slice[:10]` were actual "syntax." In fact, in that case it >> could even be the repr(). >> >> > Indexing operator for classes already has a meaning, for generic types. It > is a possibility that slice will become a generic type (see here: > https://github.com/python/mypy/issues/2410#issuecomment-258898836) and > this syntax will make it either impossible or require Slice[] to be > different from slice[] in a potentially confusing way. > > Elazar > > -- Keeping medicines from the bloodstreams of the sick; food from the bellies of the hungry; books from the hands of the uneducated; technology from the underdeveloped; and putting advocates of freedom in prisons. Intellectual property is to the 21st century what the slave trade was to the 16th.
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