Reviving this old thread since this is hitting me again today. Is there
any momentum on extending tuple unpacking to within slices?
On Thursday, December 21, 2017 at 4:33:07 PM UTC-5, Neil Girdhar wrote:
>
> I didn't think of this when we were discussing 448. I ran into this
> today, so I agree with you that it would be nice to have this.
>
> Best,
>
> Neil
>
> On Monday, December 4, 2017 at 1:02:09 AM UTC-5, Eric Wieser wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I've been thinking about the * unpacking operator while writing some
>> numpy code. PEP 448 allows the following:
>>
>> values = 1, *some_tuple, 2
>> object[(1, *some_tuple, 2)]
>>
>> It seems reasonable to me that it should be extended to allow
>>
>> item = object[1, *some_tuple, 2]
>> item = object[1, *some_tuple, :]
>>
>> Was this overlooked in the original proposal, or deliberately rejected?
>>
>> Eric
>>
>
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