Travis Oliphant wrote: > PEP: ### > Title: Allowing any object to be used for slicing > [...] > Rationale > > Currently integers and long integers play a special role in slice > notation in that they are the only objects allowed in slice > syntax. In other words, if X is an object implementing the sequence > protocol, then X[obj1:obj2] is only valid if obj1 and obj2 are both > integers or long integers. There is no way for obj1 and obj2 to > tell Python that they could be reasonably used as indexes into a > sequence. This is an unnecessary limitation. > [...]
I like the general idea from an academic point of view. Just one question: could you explain what I should expect from x[ slicer('spam') : slicer('eggs') ] when slicer implements this protocol? Specifically, I'd like to known how you want to define the interval between two objects. Or is that for the sliced/indexed object to decide? --eric _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com