Re: Slicing ideas
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- Subject: Re: Slicing ideas
- From: Rob Kendrick <rjek@...>
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 11:09:41 +0100
On Mon, Apr 02, 2012 at 12:00:10PM +0200, steve donovan wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Rob Kendrick <rjek@rjek.com> wrote:
> > foo = t[1, 2, 3] -> __slice(t, 1, 2, 3)
>
> Just to check the intended meaning; t[1,2,3] gives you {t[1],t[2],t[3]} ?
No. There is no intended meaning. One could write a __slice function
that did this, though.
> Pythonic slices use ranges, rather than explicit sequences, so the
> term 'slice' might be a bit confusing.
>
> (And there's others who would think that t[i,j] is 2D array access)
Nothing stopping people making __slice do that, either.
B.