Python 3: range objects cannot be sliced

[Christian Heimes]

Alan G Isaac schrieb:
> On 1/16/2009 1:15 PM Paul Rubin apparently wrote:
>> range is an iterator now.  Try itertools.islice.
> 
> Well yes, it behaves like xrange did.
> But (also like xrange) it supports indexing. (!)
> So why not slicing?
> I expected this (to keep it functionally
> more similar to the old range).

The old range function returned a list. If you need the old
functionality you can use list(range(...))[].

Why do you want to slice a range anyway? The range type supports a
start, stop and step argument.

Christian