[Python-ideas] shouldn't slices be iterable ?

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. Cheers, Cameron Simpson