alex martelli typcyyjgmailcom mon mar 10 2008 357 forrest voight wrote sure trying propose slice object isnt special regular builtin type idea slice objects generators could make slice like 1102 would make slice object could used list index list would return list corresponding item every index generator lists could indices would slice 11 return example proposal cant play well slices including negative indices also desired use case alistindices already pretty well covered alisti indices alex _______________________________________________ pythondev mailing list zvlllneumpythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopythondev unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspythondevpythondev40tangomucom tue 05 aug 2008 233831 0700 pythondev pep proposal revised slice objects lists use slice objects indexes