Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: > Over the time I've seen lots of remarks about python that read like "a > lot like lists in lisp" or "like the hashtable in java" or any other > form of "like <feature> in <language>". > > Are there any concepts that python has not borrowed, concepts that were > not even inspired by other languages? I'm just interested if it is > "merely" a best-of collection of language features or if there are > actually inventions that have not - or hardly - existed in programming > before python? > > wildemar
I find slice notation consistent and elegant - did it come form another language? Iain -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list