Implementing slicing PREMIUM

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5 min. read 4 min. video Python 3.8—3.12

How can you make your Python object support slicing?

Indexing relies on __getitem__, but so does slicing!

Python's subscript notation ([...]) relies on the __getitem__ method.

Here's a class with a __getitem__ method:

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