19.03.21 01:44, Cameron Simpson пише:
I know that range(start,end,stride) will produce what I'd want from iter(slice(start,end,stride)), but wouldn't it be reasonable for a slice itself to be iterable?
Yes, only one obvious way and all that, but inside eg __getitem__ it seems to me that:
if isinstance(index, slice): for i in index: ... do stuff with i ...is the obvious thing to do.
It was discussed several times before.
It cannot work, because you need to know the length of the sequence to bound limits and to determine the start and end indices if corresponding slice attributes are negative or if stride is negative.
If sequence a has 10 elements, a[2:100] should only iterate from 2 to 9, a[-5:-2] should iterate from 5 to 7, and a[::-1] should iterate from 9 to 0.
slice.indices() gives you normalized start, end and stride which you can pass to range() for iterating.