On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:36:35 -0400, Benjamin Kaplan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 2:13 PM, David C Ullrich<dullr...@sprynet.com> > wrote: >> I just noticed that >> >> Â sequence[i:j:k] >> >> syntax in a post here. When did this happen? >> >> (I'm just curious whether it existed in 1.5.x or not. If so I'm stupid >> - otoh if it was introduced in 2.x I'm just slow...) >> >> > Well, I got some good news and some bad news. According to the docs, it > existed in 1.4 but the built-in sequences didn't support it until 2.3. > It's not used that often anyway so you haven't been missing much.
So I'm slow, fine. (There were several times when I was using 1.5.3 and wished they were there - transposing matrices, etc.) > > http://www.python.org/doc/2.3.5/whatsnew/section-slices.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list