Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Mon Oct 27 11:51:16 EST 2003

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The only problem with using :: is a syntactic ambiguity:

  a[x::y]

already means something (an extended slice with start=x, no stop, and
step=y).

--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)

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