Oct. 17, 2003
9:50 p.m.
Yes. But don't mind me, I'm still sad that we have range and xrange when iter(a:b) and list(a:b:c) would be SUCH good replacements for them if slicing-notation was accepted elsewhere than in indexing,
This has been proposed more than once (I think the last time by Paul Dubois, who wanted x:y:z to be a general expression), and has a certain elegance, but is probably too terse. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)