Can I store slicers in a variable? (Pandas/Python) [duplicate]

Question

I'm just wondering if I can do something like:

df.loc['1990':'2000']

by doing something like:

my_slice = '1990':'2000'
df.loc[my_slice]

What I've written doesn't work, but is there something similar that does?

Answer 1

Yes, but you don't write slices like that. You write slice('1900', '2000', None) instead.