[Python-Dev] Allowing slicing of iterators

[Guido van Rossum]

[me]
> > Since we already have the islice iterator, what's the point?

[Nick]
> I'd like to see iterators become as easy to work with as lists are. At the
> moment, anything that returns an iterator forces you to use the relatively
> cumbersome itertools.islice mechanism, rather than Python's native slice syntax.

Sorry. Still -1.

I read your defense, and I'm not convinced. Even Fredrik's support
didn't convince me.

Iterators are for single sequential access. It's a feature that you
have to import itertools (or at least that you have to invoke its
special operations) -- iterators are not sequences and shouldn't be
confused with such.

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