On Tue, Aug 25, 2020, 05:10 Steven D'Aprano <st...@pearwood.info> wrote:

> I attempted to send this yesterday, but used the wrong sender email
> address and it got rejected.
>
> I think this is still relevent, just to confirm I understand the
> proposal correctly.
>
>
> ----- Forwarded message from Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info>
> -----
>
> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2020 11:46:02 +1000
> From: Steven D'Aprano <steve+pyt...@pearwood.info>
> To: python-ideas@python.org
> Subject: Re: [Python-ideas] PEP 472 - slices in keyword indices, d[x=1:3]
>
> On Sun, Aug 23, 2020 at 09:40:53PM -0400, Todd wrote:
>
> > I think it is worth directly discussing the availability of slices in PEP
> > 472-style keyword indices, since we seem to have mostly converged on a
> > dunder method signature.  This is an issue that has been alluded to
> > regarding keyword-based (labelled) indices but not directly addressed.
> The
> > basic syntax would be something like d[x=1:3].
>
> I read that as equivalent to `d[x=slice(1, 3)]`. Is that your intention?
>
> If that is your intention, then a big +1.
>

Yes, this was my intention.  The same as with current slices, just passed
to the keyword argument.

>
_______________________________________________
Python-ideas mailing list -- python-ideas@python.org
To unsubscribe send an email to python-ideas-le...@python.org
https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-ideas.python.org/
Message archived at 
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-ideas@python.org/message/SHL2QKEH6TV4AOY5E22N5GIQBZUDZ2ZS/
Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/

Reply via email to