On 23 July 2018 at 11:31, Jeroen Demeyer <j.deme...@ugent.be> wrote: > On 2018-07-23 12:24, Jeroen Demeyer wrote: >> >> Another solution that nobody has mentioned (as far as I know) is to add >> additional syntax to the language for that. For example, one could say >> that (1:3) could be used to construct slice(1, 3) directly. The >> parentheses are required to avoid confusion with type hints. I'm not a >> Python language expert, but I don't think that type hints can occur >> inside parentheses like that. > > > And this could be extended to tuples (1:3, 2:4) and lists [1:3, 2:4] of > slices too.
I thought the reason the proposal got nowhere was because it's pretty simple to define it yourself: >>> class SliceHelper: ... def __getitem__(self, slice): ... return slice ... >>> SH = SliceHelper() >>> SH[1::3] slice(1, None, 3) Did I miss something significant about why this wasn't sufficient? Paul _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
