[PYTHON MATRIX-SIG] RubberIndex

David Ascher da@maigret.cog.brown.edu
Wed, 14 Feb 1996 17:30:16 -0500 (EST)


> That wasn't my point either. My point is that since arrays and nested
> lists are treated as interchangeable in many situations, it makes
> sense to use this analogy as much as possible and allow an indexing
> scheme for arrays that matches that for nested arrays. WHich means
> that it should always be allowed to have just one index, independent
> of the rank of the array.

This is sort of irrelevant, but it has occured to me, now that I
understand and really like [::-1], I was sort of hoping that I could do
the same with lists.  How easy would it be to extend that third argument
to list slices?

--david

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