Indeed. I mentioned up-thread that pandas names this IndexSlicer, so it does exist. And maybe that's a perfectly fine spelling (users can always give it a shorter name, like ndx)
On Nov 12, 2016 7:07 PM, "Guido van Rossum" <gu...@python.org> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 5:46 PM, David Mertz <me...@gnosis.cx> wrote: > >> If we *do* want the name 'slice' as the spelling for the thing that can >> either be called or indexed to create a slice object, we could probably use >> some boilerplate like this: >> > > I can't stop you from doing that in your own session, but I don't want to > reuse the builtin slice object for that. If this is so useful with Pandas > maybe the Pandas library can define its own helper for this purpose. > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) >
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