2018-07-23 8:16 GMT-07:00 Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org>: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 3:24 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. >> > > Since PEP 560 it won't need a metaclass -- it can be implemented as > __class_getitem__. > > But that brings up the related problem that `slice[]` for creating slice objects would now conflict with typing syntax. And we might reasonably make `slice` generic in the future: https://github.com/python/typing/issues/159.
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