On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 09:23:18PM +0100, Stefano Borini wrote:
> There's another option (but I am not endorsing it):
>
> a[1:2, 2, j=4:7, k=3] means:
>
> a.__getitem__((slice(1, 2, None), 2, named("j", slice(4, 7, None)),
> named("k", 3)}))
This is not another option, it's just a variant on Jonathan Fine's "key
object" idea with a new name.
> Where named is an object kind like slice, and it evaluates to the pure
> value, but also has a .name like slice() has .start.
This is contradictory, and not possible in Python without a lot of work,
if at all. You want `named("k", 3)` to evaluate to 3, but 3 has no `.name`
attribute. So you can only have one: either `named("k", 3)` evaluates to
a special key object with a .name attribute "k", or it evaluates to 3.
Pick one.
--
Steve
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