class slice(stop)
class slice(start, stop[, step])
Return a slice object representing the set of indices specified by
range(start, stop, step). The start and step arguments default to
None. 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.