On 2006-07-21, Paul Boddie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Regardless of whether myslice inherits from object or not, there's no > persuading the interpreter that it is a genuine slice, and remember > that we can't subclass slice (for some reason unknown). So, it would > appear that the interpreter really wants instances from some specific > set of types (presumably discoverable by looking at list_subscript in > listobject.c) rather than some objects conforming to some interface or > protocol, and perhaps it is implemented this way for performance > reasons. > > In any case, in the core of Python some types/classes are more equal > than others, and for whatever reason the duck typing breaks down - a > case of "malbik endar" [1] that you just have to be aware of, I > suppose.
Is there any chance this will iever change? Is there any chance the start:stop:step notation will ever be considered an atom? -- Antoon Pardon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
