[Python-ideas] PEP pre-draft: Support for indexing with keyword arguments

[Stephan Hoyer]

On Thu, Jul 3, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Sturla Molden <sturla.molden at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Stephan Hoyer <shoyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes, this is true. However, in practice many implementations of labeled
> > arrays would have generic labeled axes, so they would need to use their
> own
> > logic to do the mapping in __getitem__ anyways.
>
> If you are thiniking about Pandas, then each keyword should be allowed to
> take a slice as well.
>
> dataframe[apples=1:3, oranges=2:6]
>

Yes, I am indeed thinking about pandas and other similar libraries.
Supporting slices with keywords would be essential.

Stephan
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