I whinged: >> 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? [...]
>On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 6:09 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> >wrote: >> What if the start is positive and the end is negative? What values should >> i get? On 18Mar2021 19:15, Caleb Donovick <donov...@cs.stanford.edu> wrote: >Or perhaps more problematic what happens if only stride is specified? I'd be happy if the behaviour were the same as range(), yea even to being a concise way to spell range(slice.start,slice.end,slide.stride); who wants to say that if iter(slice) means the same thing? For only stride, ValueError. For positive stride and start > end, empty iteration. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> _______________________________________________ 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/CKYOIISUXXV3SCSFQFWQYENED3GQU2L6/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
