[Python-ideas] Re: Package kwkey and PEP 472 -- Support for indexing with keyword arguments

On 4/08/20 9:20 am, Todd wrote:

Another approach could be too simply pass the labelled indices in a dict as a third/fourth positional argument.

Has anyone suggested attaching the keyword args as attributes on the slice object?

This would avoid changing the signature of __getitem__, and existing __getitem__ methods would just ignore the keyword args.