Deprecate `parameter.__getitem__`

[jenshnielsen]

And therefor the ability to sweep a parameter using the syntax param[0,1.0,10]

• This syntax is confusing since its not really indexing the parameter
• The implementation requires the input to be floats which is not pytonic
• It does nothing that cannot be done with param.sweep

Perhaps it makes more sense to add a sweep function taking a parameter

def sweep(parameter: Parameter, slice) -> SweepFixedValues

and also deprecate sweep.

• [ ] Add changelog
• [ ] The ability to sweep individual values with [val1,val2, ...] is not supported using sweep
• [ ] Setting an individual value with [1] is more clunky
• [ ] Update qcodes_loop to not make use of this

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[jenshnielsen]

This is not a realistic approach since qcodes_loop makes to heavy use of __getitem__ in all its forms.

Suggest to add a class to qcodes loop that takes a parameter as input and exposes__getitem__ and sweep to use in that package