Terry Reedy wrote: >>Ron Adam wrote: >> >> >>>However, I would like the inverse selection of negative strides to be >>>fixed if possible. If you could explain the current reason why it does >>>not return the reverse order of the selected range. > > > To repeat, the current reason is compatibility with the original design for > NumPy. Perhaps there is some explanation for that in sliceobject.c (or > whatever the file is called), the CVS checkin messages, or the newsgroup > archives before the first checkin (in 1996, I believe). > > Terry J. Reedy
Thanks, I'll check the cvs, so far I havn't been able to find any references to it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
