I know this PEP is rejected. However I have a problem that would benefit from having extreme values and the sample implementation that is given in the PEP is unsatifactory for my purpose.
I had written my own module, which works similarly but is somewhat extended. Here is an example of how it can be used and how I would like to use it but get stuck. from extreme import Top >>> Top Top >>> Top + 1 Top >>> Top - 30 Top >>> Top > 1e99 True >>> lst = range(10) >>> lst[:Top] Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? TypeError: slice indices must be integers or None So this is where I am stuck. I need this Top value in a context where it can be used as a start or stop value in a slice. My idea was that since a stop value greater than the length of lst in this context would simply return a copy of lst, using Top in such a way should behave so too. However I don't see a way of doing that. So can someone provide ideas to get this behaviour? If not is there a chance that PEP 326 gets revived? -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
