Re: Possible to slice a string with unpacked tuple?

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pyt...@bdurham.com wrote:
  Is there a way to slice a string with a tuple without unpacking the tuple?
 >>> myString = "111-222-333-444"
 >>> myString[ 4: 7 ]
'222'

Is there some way I could perform an identical slicing operation with a 
tuple like ( 4, 7 ) without having to unpack the tuple?

 >>> myTuple = ( 4, 7 )

Thanks!

Does myString[myTuple[0] : myTuple[1]] count as unpacking? If it does, 
then how about myString.__getslice__(*myTuple)?
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