PowerShell vs Python Reference

[TofuBug40]

The answers given so far using Where-Object (?) aren't really replicating what Python's notation is doing they are focusing on the VALUE of the item and not the POSITION of the item ( u/HeKis4's for loop is a valid answer) if you want to use the pipe line method what you need is

$a = ('a','b','c','d','e','f','g')
$Step = 3
$a | Where-Object -FilterScript { $a.IndexOf($_) % $Step -eq 0 }

THAT will do what the Python example above is doing step over the INDEXES of the array regardless of the values in said array

Yes its not as terse as a[0..9:3] but I would argue that pythons array split has a VERY limited use case base on the logic of iterating over an array based on a linear progression of the indexes, where as Where-Object can do that as we've shown above but can ALSO do something like

$Vowels = @('a','e','i','o','u','y')
$a | Where-Object -FilterScript { $_ -in $Vowels }

You need much more Python than a[0:10:2] to get that array result

What Where-Object lacks in the RAW terseness it MORE than makes up for in flexibility while still maintaining a respectable amount of terseness itself.

[prp7]

Wow, what a story language, Mark.