On Thu, Aug 12, 2021 at 9:02 AM Calvin Spealman <cspea...@redhat.com> wrote:
> An alternative suggestion, which works today (... is a valid object called > Ellipsis): > > Foobar.search( > attr1="foo", > attr2=[10, ...], > attr3=[42, ..., 50] > ) > This got me thinking just now: allowing ellipses instead of None for the first two arguments of the slice() constructor might be a neat idea. These looks pretty nice: slice(1, ...) slice(1, ..., 2) slice(-1, ..., -1) slice(..., ..., 3) I wonder if-- had the ellipses existed when slice() was created eons ago/in the depths of time-- whether ... would have been used rather than None for these. I'm not really proposing this, just musing. --- Ricky. "I've never met a Kentucky man who wasn't either thinking about going home or actually going home." - Happy Chandler
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