Python Slices vs Ruby blocks

A couple of my Python colleagues tried to impress me today with Python's named slices feature. The way it works is like that: s = list('helloworld!') => ['h', 'e', 'l', 'l', 'o', 'w', 'o', 'r', 'l', 'd', '!'] WORLD = slice(5, 10) s[WORLD] => ['w'...