text_combined: greg ewing lwbwyflqtcanterburyacnz forrest voight wrote slice objects produced list index area would different optionally syntax slices list indexes would expanded work everywhere something like quite close getting back eventually dropped anyone advocating probably look back discussion find think called range expressions something like point consider iterating range integers actually quite rare thing idiomatic python much common iterate directly sequence things want operate even true enumerate proposal addressing fairly small set use cases greg _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom wed 06 aug 2008 182923 1300 pythondev pep proposal revised slice objects lists use slice objects indexes