[castiro] > Slice literals are a logical next step, precedented by raw strings and > bytes. slice= islice is too, precedented by range= xrange.
Looking closely at the [::] notation, I think it can easily be confused with an open box of fleas. IMO, the one unequivocal, explicit way of checking for lice is itertools.is_lice(). Raymond _ ~ @ @ \_/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
