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Author	terry.reedy
Recipients	rossbar, terry.reedy
Date	2020-11-21.01:37:45
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What you are or should be asking for is an alternate string representation method, perhaps called 'colon', so that for instance myslice.colon() == '::2' The function could take an optional length (as with .indices, but optional) to produce the same numbers as .indices. myslice.colon(8) == '0:8:2' slice(0, -1, 3).colon(14) == '0:13:3' I suspect that something like this has been asked before. I suggest you post to python-ideas list to see if there is any support and any better idea for the name.

What you are or should be asking for is an alternate string representation method, perhaps called 'colon', so that for instance
myslice.colon() == '::2'

The function could take an optional length (as with .indices, but optional) to produce the same numbers as .indices.

myslice.colon(8) == '0:8:2'
slice(0, -1, 3).colon(14) == '0:13:3'

I suspect that something like this has been asked before.  I suggest you post to python-ideas list to see if there is any support and any better idea for the name.

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