On Tue, 17 Nov 2020 at 22:19, Oscar Benjamin <oscar.j.benja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It would be nice if islice gave an object that supported slicing so
> that you could spell it like:
>
> for x in islice(a)[5:]:
>
> I find it hard to decipher the meaning of the arguments to islice
> compared to reading a normal slice expression.
It's possible to write this yourself:
from itertools import islice
class ISlice:
def __init__(self, it):
self.it = iter(it)
def __getitem__(self, s):
if isinstance(s, slice):
return islice(self.it, s.start, s.stop, s.step)
# Presumably an integer
return islice(self.it, s, s+1)
if __name__ == "__main__":
a = range(10)
print(list(ISlice(a)[5:9]))
a = range(10)
print(list(ISlice(a)[5]))
I don't know whether I'd find it useful enough to be worth it, though...
Paul
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