What little documentation I could find, providing a stride on the
assignment target for a list is supposed to trigger 'advanced slicing'
causing element-wise replacement - and hence requiring that the source
iterable has the appropriate number of elements.
>>> a = [0,1,2,3]
>>> a[::2] = [4,5]
>>>
On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Alexander Heger wrote:
> What little documentation I could find, providing a stride on the
> assignment target for a list is supposed to trigger 'advanced slicing'
> causing element-wise replacement - and hence requiring that the source
> iterable has the appropr
On 23 February 2018 at 11:51, Guido van Rossum wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 2:18 PM, Alexander Heger wrote:
>> But I disagree that there should be no error when it is wrong.
>> *Strides that are not None should always trigger advanced slicing.*
>
> This makes sense.
>
> (I wonder if the discr
