Suggested feature: slice syntax within tuples (or even more generally)?
Duncan Booth
duncan.booth at invalid.invalid
Thu Feb 14 07:25:23 EST 2013
stephenwlin at gmail.com wrote:
> Would it be feasible to modify the Python grammar to allow ':' to
> generate slice objects everywhere rather than just indexers and
> top-level tuples of indexers?
>
Would this be a dict with a slice as key or value, or a set with a slice
with a step?:
{1:2:3}
You can't just allow ':' to generate slice objects everwhere without
introducing ambiguity, so your proposal would have to be to allow slice
objects in wider but still restricted contexts.
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Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com
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