Re: Slices by length

2025-09-06 Thread MRAB
On 2025-09-06 13:47, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote: I quite often find myself writing expressions of the form     someString[x : x+n] where n is often an int and x may be an int, a variable, or a (possibly complicated) expression. It would be more natural to be able to specify the slice not

Slices by length

2025-09-06 Thread Rob Cliffe via Python-list
I quite often find myself writing expressions of the form     someString[x : x+n] where n is often an int and x may be an int, a variable, or a (possibly complicated) expression. It would be more natural to be able to specify the slice not by its startpoint and ENDPOINT, but by its startpoint an

Re: Slices by length

2025-09-06 Thread dn via Python-list
On 7/09/25 00:47, Rob Cliffe via Python-list wrote: I quite often find myself writing expressions of the form     someString[x : x+n] where n is often an int and x may be an int, a variable, or a (possibly complicated) expression. 0 A PEP 1 A helper-function eg slice_by_length( input_string