slice¶

Description¶

Returns a slice object.

Syntax¶

slice (stop) slice (start, stop[, step])

start: Required if stop is used. Starting index.
stop: Required. Last item plus one returned by the slice
step: Optional. Value of the step.

Return Value¶

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Time Complexity¶

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Remarks¶

Slice objects have read-only data attributes start, stop and step which merely return the argument values (or their default). They have no other explicit functionality; however they are used by Numerical Python and other third party extensions. Slice objects are also generated when extended indexing syntax is used. For example: a[start:stop:step] or a[start:stop, i]. See itertools.islice() for an alternate version that returns an iterator.

Example¶

>>> slice(0, 5, 2)
slice(0, 5, 2)