Re: [Python-Dev] python3k change to slicing

2007-04-19 Thread Jon Ribbens
Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -1 Me too. > While this may be theoretically preferable, I believe that in practice > changing this would be a major pain for very little gain. I don't > recall ever finding a bug related to this feature, and I believe it's > occasionally useful. I f

Re: [Python-Dev] python3k change to slicing

2007-04-19 Thread Guido van Rossum
[+python-3000; followups please remove python-dev] -1 While this may be theoretically preferable, I believe that in practice changing this would be a major pain for very little gain. I don't recall ever finding a bug related to this feature, and I believe it's occasionally useful. Here's somethi

[Python-Dev] python3k change to slicing

2007-04-19 Thread Neal Becker
There is one thing I'd like to see changed in a future python. I always found it surprising, that >>> x = [1,2,3,4,5] >>> x[1:10] [2, 3, 4, 5] is not an error. This is perhaps the only case (but a fundamental one!) where an error is silently ignored. I really can't think of a good justification