Here's one:

    [\@test_array, '[3:4]', 'd'],

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In my OP I mentioned needing help from "bilingual" (i.e. Perl and Python) people; otherwise I'd have included a description of Python's slice notation. I'm sorry if this was negligence on my part, but I assumed that anyone answering would be familiar with Python's oddball slice semantics. [a:b] means "the characters starting at offset a and ending at offset b-1". Unless a or b is negative in which case .. hell, I don't remember ;-)

The code I posted correctly slices arrays using Pythonic parameters, although it doesn't attempt to handle the optional third argument, a step value. And I'm happy to say that the translation effort has succeeded and Perl is now churning out gibberish sonnets at a much faster rate than its Python equivalent.

Update:

It correctly slices arrays if the arguments aren't nonsensical -- like being out of range, which Python forgives. It needs a few more sanity tests to handle those cases.

In reply to Re^6: Converting python list range expressions to perl by ibm1620
in thread Converting python list range expressions to perl by ibm1620

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