On 1/29/2009 4:41 PM Robert Kern apparently wrote: > It allows (ab)uses like numpy.mgrid: > > >>> mgrid[0:10:11j] > array([ 0., 1., 2., 3., 4., 5., 6., 7., 8., 9., 10.]) Ah of course. Obvious now, but I had presumed some deeper magic in that syntax, not recognizing that a legitimate slice object was being created. Thanks! Alan