Hi Andrew (We're still a bit off-topic here.) You asked me what I'd expect, if not the present values of:
>>> seq[] SyntaxError: invalid syntax >>> getslice[1:2:3:4] SyntaxError: invalid syntax I'd have expected to got respectively the outcome of >>> seq.__getitem__() >>> seq.__getitem__(slice(1, 2, 3, 4)) In other words, a run-time error rather than a syntax error. And for the slice to make sense, perhaps also to have instead something like: >>> seq.__getitem__(seq.__slice__(1, 2, 3, 4)) This would allow collections to have a custom slice class. And this would perhaps open the door to >>> seq[0, 1, key=3] no longer being a SyntaxError. And now we're well off-topic. (I'll start a new thread for this, if asked off-list to do so.) -- Jonathan
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