On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Mike Graham <mikegraham at gmail.com> wrote: .. >> So I'd like to be able to do this: >> >> self.data[..., *index, :] > > If in indexes, why not when making other tuples? I believe this and other unpacking generalizations are implemented in issue #2292: http://bugs.python.org/issue2292