Syntax for making slices

[kknechtel (Karl Knechtel)]

There’s also this one:

PEP 204 - Range Literals: Getting closure

Almost 23 years ago PEP 204 was rejected. It is arguably the single most requested feature over the years, appearing in python ideas mail list more frequently than I can remember. It is about the infamous “Range Literals”. The final resolution was: After careful consideration, and a period of meditation, this proposal has been rejected. The open issues, as well as some confusion between ranges and slice syntax, raised enough questions for Guido not to accept it for Python 2.0, and later to re…

I thought I had also proposed it myself, but it seems that I merely posted a few times in that thread.