slicing within `select()`

Is it possible to slice with the select() verb?

For example, suppose I have a dataframe

df = pd.DataFrame({"a": range(3), "x" : range(3), 
                   "y": range(3), "z": range(3)}, 
                   index=range(3))

I can do this

df >> select("x", "y", "z")

Is it possible in someway to do this via a slice "x":"z"? I tried

edited

df >> select("x":"z") #corrected typo here "z" was "y"

and

edited

df >> select(("x":"z")) # corrected typo here "z" was "y"

with no success.

[has2k1]

I see the confusion. I mean, plydata implementing the slice function so that you (the user) can use it to select columns. It is not possible now, but it is good feature. I’ll add it may be tomorrow and make a release.

[has2k1]

Released in v0.3.2. You can now do select(..., slice("x", "y"), ...).