Various Topics on Python

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On Sun, 8 May 2005 16:29:03 -0700, James Stroud <jstroud@mbi.ucla.edu> wrote:
>Hello All,
>
>If "__call__" allows anobject() and "__getitem__" allows anobject[arange], why
>not have "__brace__" (or some other, better name) for anobject{something}.
>Such braces might be useful for cross-sectioning nested data structures:
>

See Numeric Python, which uses index slices in multiple dimensions to satisfy this use case.

While a new syntactic construct could be introduced to provide this feature, the "minimal core, rich library" school of language design suggests that doing so would not be a great idea.

Jp