The start/stop/step sound like they might be nice. But that wouldn't give you a length, since you never know when an iterator will be exhausted. I feel like `len(islice(it, 1, 1_000_000))` telling you the "maximum possible length" is more a danger than a help.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 4:41 AM Mathew Elman <mathew.elman@ocado.com> wrote:

Is there a reason that itertools.islice does not provide its start, stop and step values as attributes, similar to range?
This seems like a sensible and useful thing to have, and would also allow islice's to have a __len__.

Mathew
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