On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 04:34:16PM +0000, Juancarlo Añez wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 6:00 AM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Be careful of this last one. If you omit the step, it looks like this:
> >
> > {start:stop}
> >
> > which is a dictionary display.
> >
>
> The parenthesis could always be required for this new syntax.
Under the proposed syntax
{(start:stop)}
would be a set with a single item, a slice object. If slice objects were
hashable, that would be legal.
The OP's proposal is for {start:stop} to be equivalent to
set(range(start, stop)) so they will be very different things.
--
Steve
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