On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 6:24 AM, Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote:
> On 2018-07-23 11:58, Grégory Lielens wrote: > >> Not sure slice[1::3] can be done >> > > It can be done. Since "slice" is a class, it would require a metaclass > though. > > Another solution that nobody has mentioned (as far as I know) is to add > additional syntax to the language for that. For example, one could say that > (1:3) could be used to construct slice(1, 3) directly. The parentheses are > required to avoid confusion with type hints. I'm not a Python language > expert, but I don't think that type hints can occur inside parentheses like > that. > > If I remember correctly Guido explicitly rejected requests for such syntax. This proposal was intended as a compromise.
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