Hi Grégory You wrote: > Seems that the initial proposal was skipped just for timing reasons
The discussion is in https://bugs.python.org/issue24379. It was first skipped for that reason. Second time around our Then and now Former BDFL wrote === https://bugs.python.org/msg280721 Actually I'm with Raymond -- I'm also not sure or mildly against (-0). Given how easy it is to do without and how cumbersome using the operator module is I don't see a great benefit. (IMO the operator module should be the measure of *last* resort -- it is not to become part of anybody's toolkit for common operators. But I seem to be a minority opinion here.) === and also === https://bugs.python.org/msg319695 Let's close it. Just because someone spent a lot of effort on a patch we don't have to accept it. === That said, I see merits in providing standard tools for creating slices. These tools, as discussed, to take advantage of the power of the [...] syntax. I'd start here: https://bugs.python.org/msg244801 -- Jonathan _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/