Or perhaps more problematic what happens if only stride is specified? On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:09 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 10:46 AM Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> wrote: > > > > I know that range(start,end,stride) will produce what I'd want from > > iter(slice(start,end,stride)), but wouldn't it be reasonable for a slice > > itself to be iterable? > > > > Yes, only one obvious way and all that, but inside eg __getitem__ it > > seems to me that: > > > > if isinstance(index, slice): > > for i in index: > > ... do stuff with i ... > > > > is the obvious thing to do. > > > > What if the start is positive and the end is negative? What values should > i get? > > ChrisA > _______________________________________________ > 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/O6ZF3UZIWTJFBGOYDXDZ7X4X7FA6DNHK/ > Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/ >
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