On Mon, Jul 23, 2018 at 4:19 PM Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote:
> Stephan Hoyer schrieb am 23.07.2018 um 18:01: > > I think a SliceHelper class like this is a reasonable solution, but there > > would be a lot of value having it a standard place somewhere in the > > standard library (e.g., operator.subscript). > > > > Both pandas and NumPy include this helper object under different names > > (pandas.IndexSlice and numpy.index_exp / numpy.s_), but it would be > > surprising/unexpected for pandas/numpy specific helpers to show up when > not > > using one of those libraries. I do the exact same sorts of indexing > > manipulations with xarray, dask and TensorFlow. > > > > Given that this is basically a simple feature to make it easier to work > > with Python syntax (so there's no danger it will change in the future), I > > think there is a lot to be said for putting it in the standard library in > > one place so it's obvious what to use and users don't have to relearn > that > > name for this object and/or reimplement it. > > Please copy that comment into the ticket and ask for it to be reopened. > > https://bugs.python.org/issue24379 > > Stefan > I basically did exactly that last week! See https://bugs.python.org/issue24379#msg321966 I was told, "You may get more traction on python-ideas" :) Cheers, Stephan
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