On Sunday 28 April 2002 19:10, Raymond Hettinger wrote: ... > Maybe we should also address the str/getitem/slice bug > www.python.org/sf/473985 and kill two birds with one stone (or tie two Yes, GvR's comments there do seem to address most of the work needed to address this proposal, excepting only the details of handling slices with step != 1 -- which aren't the hardest part. Alex