Paul Moore <gustav@morpheus.demon.co.uk> writes:

At the moment, built in objects such as lists don't support the slice notaton l[a:b:c]. Would there be support for including this in Python 2.3? If so, what would be the necessary procedure? Would this require a PEP?

Well, I wrote a patch for this ages and ages ago: http://www.python.org/sf/400998 It got rejected, mostly for lack of interest.

Alex Martelli has offered to do the code, if someone will champion the work. I'm happy to do this, but I don't have commit privileges, so it would require someone else to actually commit any changes. I presume that the correct approach would be to submit the changes as a patch to SourceForge?

I'd have thought so. Cheers, M. -- ... with these conditions cam the realisation that ... nothing turned a perfectly normal healthy individual into a great political or military leader better than irreversible brain damage. -- The Hitch-Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, Episode 11