I'm still confused what you mean by extend to all iterators? you mean that you could use slice syntax with anything iterable>
And where does this fit in to the iterable vs iterator continuum?
iterables will return an iterator when iter() is called on them. So are you suggesting that another way to get an iterator from an iterable would be to pass a slice somehow that would return an iterator off that slice?
so:
for i in an_iterable(a:b:c):
...
would work for any iterable? and use an iterator that would iterate as specified by the slice?
Translate `an_iterable(a:b:c)` to `itertools.islice(an_iterable, a, b, c)`. From there your questions can be answered by playing with itertools.islice. It accepts any iterable or iterator and returns an iterator:
```
import itertools
s = itertools.islice([1, 2, 3], 2)
print(s)
assert s is iter(s)
s2 = itertools.islice(s, 1)
print(s2)
```
Though it is heading in a different direction that where Andrew was proposing, that this would be about making and using views on sequences, which really wouldn't make sense for any iterator.
The idea is that islice would be the default behaviour and classes could override that to return views if they want.