Allowing zero-dimensional subscripts

[Antoon Pardon]

Op 2006-06-08, spam.noam at gmail.com schreef <spam.noam at gmail.com>:
> Hello,
>
> Terry Reedy wrote:
>> > In a few more words: Currently, an object can be subscripted by a few
>> > elements, separated by commas. It is evaluated as if the object was
>> > subscripted by a tuple containing those elements.
>>
>> It is not 'as if'.   'a,b' *is* a tuple and the object *is* subcripted by a
>> tuple.
>> Adding () around the non-empty tuple adds nothing except a bit of noise.
>>
>
> It doesn't necessarily matter, but technically, it is not "a tuple".

Yes it is.

> The "1, 2" in "x[1, 2]" isn't evaluated according to the same rules as
> in "x = 1, 2"

I was pretty sure it was.

> - for example, you can have "x[1, 2:3:4, ..., 5]", which
> isn't a legal tuple outside of square braces

Yes it is, it just is illegal notation outside square brackets.
You could have approximate the same effect by

  I = 1, slice(2,3,4), Ellipsis, 5
  x[I]

> - in fact, it even isn't
> legal inside parens: "x[(1, 2:3:4, ..., 5)]" isn't legal syntax.

But what is illegal is the notation, not the value.

-- 
Antoon Pardon