Jeroen Demeyer writes: > When you think of it this way, it's not an unreasonable request. There > would be at least one major use of this operator within CPython, for > lists. With this proposal, the awkward syntax (there are 219 instances > of this in the CPython sources) > > L[:] = new_list
I'd rather not replace it. It's a perfectly Pythonic syntax, although it's a Python-specific idiom. It's an opportunity to see slice assignment in operation, which I would guess is relatively unusual in the general case. Steve _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list Python-ideas@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-ideas Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
