[Python-Dev] extended slicing again

[Michael Hudson]

Michael Hudson <mwh@python.net> writes:

> Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> writes:
> 
> > IOW slice(a, b, None) should be considered equivalent to L[a:b] in all
> > situations.
> 
> OK.  I'll do this soon.  It's not as bad as I thought at first -- only
> mutable sequences are affected, so it's only lists and arrays that
> need to be tweaked.

That was easy!

Cheers,
M.

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