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Fri Mar 24 16:19:04 CET 2006 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2006-March/062788.html

On 3/24/06, Nick Coghlan <ncoghlan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I do find it somewhat interesting that we're considering moving the standard
> containers to a more numpy-ish view of the world, though (i.e. one where
> multiple mutable views of a data structure are common in order to avoid
> unnecessary copying)
>
> Would that philosophy be extended to slicing operations, though?

That's a question I hadn't though about yet. I'm not sure I like it,
but it sure is consistent with other view APIs; like everywhere, if
you need a separate object, you can place a list() around it.

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