"Steven Bethard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> http://docs.python.org/ref/sequence-methods.html > __getslice__( self, i, j) > ... > Called to implement evaluation of self[i:j]. > ... > If no __getslice__() is found, a slice object is created instead, and > passed to __getitem__() instead. The overwhelmingl most common case of a simple slice is more efficiently done by having a separate function since no slice object is created. >>> a=[1,2,3] >>> def f(): return a[0:1] ... >>> import dis >>> dis.dis(f) 0 SET_LINENO 1 3 SET_LINENO 1 6 LOAD_GLOBAL 0 (a) 9 LOAD_CONST 1 (0) 12 LOAD_CONST 2 (1) 15 SLICE+3 16 RETURN_VALUE Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
