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29 Dec
2017
29 Dec
'17
2:06 a.m.
On Dec 28, 2017 12:10, "Joao S. O. Bueno" <jsbueno@python.org.br> wrote: This is probably too little to justify the compatibility breakage, but is there a motive for the "slice" type to be on built-ins ? (besides people forgot it there at PEP-3000 time?) It is normally used in super-specialized cases, mostly when one is implementing a Sequence type, and even there just for type-checking, not to create new slice objects. It does get called sometimes in numerical code to construct complex indexing operations. -n