[Python-3000] Making more effective use of slice objects in Py3k

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Sat Aug 26 15:26:04 CEST 2006


"Nick Coghlan" <ncoghlan at iinet.net.au> wrote in message 
news:44F0107B.20205 at iinet.net.au...

> I think an enriched slicing model that allows sequence views to be 
> expressed
> easily as "this slice of this sequence" would allow this to be dealt with
> cleanly, without requiring every sequence to provide a corresponding 
> "sequence
> view" with non-copying semantics.

I think this is promising.  I like the potential unification.

> Should I make a Py3k PEP for this?

I think so ;-)

tjr





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