[Python-Dev] __getitem__ in user defined classes

[Guido van Rossum]

> > > This could be simplified somewhat by making slices iterable
> > 
> > Hmmm... if slices were iterable, they'd behave a lot
> > like xrange objects.
> > 
> > Perhaps
> > 
> >   slice == xrange
> > 
> > could be true in some future Python?
> 
> http://python.org/sf/575515 , rejected.

Note that slice() isn't limited to integers -- that's up to whoever
interprets the slice instance.  But iteration really should only
support ints.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)