On 20 February 2017 at 22:05, Jonathan Goble <jcgob...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 3:55 PM Ryan Gonzalez <rym...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> - Right now, a[b,c] is already valid syntax, since it's just indexing a >> with the tuple (b, c). The proposal is to make this a specialization in the >> grammar, and also allow stuff like a[b:c, d:e] (like >> `a.__getitem__(slice(b, c), slice(d, e))`). >> > > The syntax/grammar already permits slices to be used in this fashion: > Moreover, this syntax is already extensively used by numpy and means something different - multidimensional slicing. Having a different semantics for lists would be therefore confusing. -- Ivan
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