In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So - the rationale seems to be: "When using slice-assignment, a form > like l[a:b:c] imposes possibly a non-continous section in l, for which > the semantics are unclear - so we forbid it" But it isn't forbidden: >>> v = range(10) >>> v [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9] >>> v[0:10:3] = ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd'] >>> v ['a', 1, 2, 'b', 4, 5, 'c', 7, 8, 'd'] The only time it's actively forbidden is when the length of the slice and the length of the list being assigned to it don't match. I agree with you that it might be nice for [a:b:1] and [a:b] to be treated synonymously. Dave -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
