[Python-Dev] PEP 203 Augmented Assignment

[Greg Ewing]

> The way I understand this, mixing indices and slices is used all
> the time to reduce the dimensionality of an array.

I wasn't really suggesting that they should be disallowed.
I was trying to point out that their existence makes it
hard to draw a clear distinction between indexing and slicing.

If it were the case that

   a[i,j,...,k]

was always equivalent to

   a[i][j]...[k]

then there would be no problem -- you could consider each
subscript individually as either an index or a slice. But
that's not the way it is.

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