On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 7:35 PM, Alexander Heger <pyt...@2sn.net> 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[:]" >> > > following all the later discussion, I'd like to come back to this initial > part of this thread: > An even briefer for for just "str" would be to omit the 'slice' part > > str(slice(None, None, None)) => "[:]" > > etc. Since it has colons in there, it's clear it is a slice. And it is > very brief notation. > It is also confusing -- it is surrounded by [] but it is not a list (not even close). -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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