Pandas like features

[mw]

On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 22:53:29 UTC, mw wrote:
> On Friday, 23 October 2020 at 22:38:39 UTC, mw wrote:
>> 1) use Python's arr[start:end], in addition to D's 
>> arr[start..end]
>
> BTW, in Python arr[start:end:step], how / if it's possible for 
> this `step` in now D?


(Today I'm in the mood of a language historian :-)

Some of Guido's early discussion of Python array index:

Slices
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1996-April/000553.html

Pseudo Indices
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1996-January/000331.html

Mutli-dimensional indexing and other comments
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1995-October/000077.html

A problem with slicing
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/matrix-sig/1995-September/000042.html