why python don't support "extended slice direct assignment" for lists?

[Chris Rebert]

On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Robert William Hanks
<astroultraman at gmail.com> wrote:
> to say is "wrong" i think is a bit too much, its just a different type of
> usage, this type of sintax is extensively used in numpy arrays (extended
> slice came from numerical python), just asking why not extend the sintax to
> python list. (not sure if you can use None as in the code i posted in numpy
> but numbers are ok). I was just rewriting some numpy code in pure python (no
> numpy for python3 yet), personally i think the pure python way is just ugly
> and more expensive.
>
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Cheers,
Chris