Alok Singhal added the comment: Hi Raymond, Martin,
I won't feel bad about this patch not making it into the final Python distribution. I worked on this bug because it was the only "core C" bug at PyCon US sprints for CPython. I learned a bit more about CPython while working on it and I don't consider the time I spent on this bug as wasted. Other than symmetry arguments, I can't think of any other argument for islice to accept large values. a = [] a[sys.maxsize+2:] # gives: [] islice(a, None, sys.maxsize+2) # raises exception But because islice has to go through the elements of the iterable from the current value to "start", while the first example doesn't, I don't think the symmetry argument is that strong here. So, I think it's fine if we close this bug without accepting this patch. Thanks for your time in reviewing it! ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue6305> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
