Home - News ( United States | United Kingdom | Italy | Germany ) - Football scores

Showing content from https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2000-November/010448.html below:

[Python-Dev] Three argument slices.

• Previous message: [Python-Dev] Three argument slices.
• Next message: [Python-Dev] Gathering Python 2.1 goals and non-goals
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

> While updating the difference page in the Jython documentation, I came
> across this:
> 
> - JPython sequences support three argument slices. i.e. 
>   range(3)[::-1] == [2,1,0]. 
>   CPython should be fixed.
> 
> Is this actually true? Should (and will cpython) change in this respect?

Good question.  I haven't pronounced on Michael's patch

http://sourceforge.net/patch/?func=detailpatch&patch_id=100998&group_id=5470

because I don't know whether this is really a good idea.  I don't know
that I ever *will* pronounce uness someone points out how useful it is
for some practical application.

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

• Previous message: [Python-Dev] Three argument slices.
• Next message: [Python-Dev] Gathering Python 2.1 goals and non-goals
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]

RetroSearch is an open source project built by @garambo | Open a GitHub Issue

Search and Browse the WWW like it's 1997 | Search results from DuckDuckGo

HTML: 3.2 | Encoding: UTF-8 | Version: 0.7.4