Mark Dickinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Here's a new patch that incorporates Arnaud's fix and tests, together with a few extra tests.
While I expect that this change will affect very little code, I think it's the right thing to do, because: - start and stop are now processed identically, making the source code easier to understand, and the behaviour easier to explain. - expected invariants now hold even in corner cases; for example, after: start, stop, step = my_slice.indices(length) it's guaranteed that 0 <= start <= stop <= length if step is positive, and length-1 >= start >= stop >= -1 if step is negative. However, I'd like a second opinion from another core developer before checking this in. Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file10670/issue3004.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3004> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
