Now that we have an infrastructure to support slice as rows_sel for iloc indexer.
E.g.,
>>> pdf = pd.DataFrame({'a':list('abcdefghij')})
>>> pdf
a
0 a
1 b
2 c
3 d
4 e
5 f
6 g
7 h
8 i
9 j
>>> pdf.iloc[2:5]
a
2 c
3 d
4 e
>>> pdf.iloc[2:-3]
a
2 c
3 d
4 e
5 f
6 g
>>> pdf.iloc[-8:-3]
a
2 c
3 d
4 e
5 f
6 g
>>> pdf.iloc[2:-3:2]
a
2 c
4 e
6 g
>>> pdf.iloc[5:]
a
5 f
6 g
7 h
8 i
9 j
>>> pdf.iloc[5:2]
Empty DataFrame
Columns: [a]
Index: []