Hello! Let's say slice is multidimensional now - how to interpret it?
I excpect these to work: - m[0, 3] - get one element from matrix - m[0:2, 0:2] - get four elements from matrix, iterate over them (I have actually an rtree if it doesn't make sense to you) But it won't, because if m[0, 3] returns something, then m[0:2, 0:2] cannot yield anymore. Ofcourse I could return an iterator, but this would not be so simple. So, maybe we need these: - __isslice__(key) - return true, false - __getitem__(key) - return a value - __getslice__(key) - yield a lots of values So that if isslice returns true, getslice will be called. Would be much more beauty! Right now it's ugly. I love Python, but I also love n-dimensional spaces and those are ugly in Python - last time I did Matrix multiplication I could not implement m[0, 3] (stupid errors), could not m[0j + 3], could not use tuple. Now I was happy that it's implemented and just ran into another problem that I have to choose, if getter returns one or many :) Ofcourse I could return list or other iterable, but I want to be able to do it with three-liner, because the rest of my code mostly consists of those. Except the few masterfunctions, which do some complex manipulations with data. I also need to implement things like that, which also return true for __isslice__: m[Circle(0, 0, 10)] - for RTree, any shape object implementing getExtent and doesOverlap can be used as slice index. Because I do complex map transformations and all this trivial stuff must be *hidden*! Tambet
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