On 30 Apr 2007 11:02:19 -0700, Bas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > stupid question, but would it be possible to somehow merge xrange > (which is supposed to replace range in py3k) and slice? Both have very > similar start, stop and step arguments and both are lightweight > objects to indicate a range. But you can't do a[xrange(10,20)] and > 'for i in slice(10,20)'. The only difference is see is some behavior > with infinities (e.g. object[3:] gives a slice(3,maxint) inside > _getitem_ , but I think this should not be a large problem > (xrange(0,infinity) could just yield a generator that never stops). > > Which problems am I overlooking that prevent this?
Novel idea but how would slice(3,-1) work? -- mvh Björn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
