Is An Element of a Sequence an Object?

[Peter Otten]

Thomas Jollans wrote:

> What I thought was going on was that single-character strings return
> self on [0], as they do on full-length slices.
> 
>>>> c = 'δ'
>>>> c[0] is c
> False
>>>> c[:] is c
> True
>>>> c[0:1] is c
> True
>>>>
> 
> I wonder why they don't do this...

Perhaps noone has found a use-case that would profit from this optimization, 
straight-forward as it may be...