I attempted to send this yesterday, but used the wrong sender email address and it got rejected.
I think this is still relevent, just to confirm I understand the proposal correctly. ----- Forwarded message from Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> ----- Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:46:02 +1000 From: Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info> To: python-ideas@python.org Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] PEP 472 - slices in keyword indices, d[x=1:3] On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 09:40:53PM -0400, Todd wrote: > I think it is worth directly discussing the availability of slices in PEP > 472-style keyword indices, since we seem to have mostly converged on a > dunder method signature. This is an issue that has been alluded to > regarding keyword-based (labelled) indices but not directly addressed. The > basic syntax would be something like d[x=1:3]. I read that as equivalent to `d[x=slice(1, 3)]`. Is that your intention? If that is your intention, then a big +1. If your intention was `d[slice(x=1, 3)]` then I think you would have to justify what it means and why you want it. -- Steven ----- End forwarded message ----- _______________________________________________ Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/R5EVLDHWYMPROFVWXJROASTFXNH3VRD3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
