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Tue Jan 25 22:05:37 CET 2005 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2005-January/051290.html

> Iterators are for single sequential access. It's a feature that you
> have to import itertools (or at least that you have to invoke its
> special operations) -- iterators are not sequences and shouldn't be
> confused with such.

FWIW, someone (Bengt Richter perhaps) once suggested syntactic support
differentiated from sequences but less awkward than a call to
itertools.islice().

itertools.islice(someseq, lo, hi) would be rendered as someseq'[lo:hi].

Raymond

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[Python-Dev] Allowing slicing of iterators