[Python-ideas] str(slice(10)) should return "slice(10)"

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 5:46 PM, David Mertz <mertz at gnosis.cx> wrote:

> If we *do* want the name 'slice' as the spelling for the thing that can
> either be called or indexed to create a slice object, we could probably use
> some boilerplate like this:
>

I can't stop you from doing that in your own session, but I don't want to
reuse the builtin slice object for that. If this is so useful with Pandas
maybe the Pandas library can define its own helper for this purpose.

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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