STINNER Victor <victor.stin...@gmail.com> added the comment:

> This is different case than mutating a dict while iterate it. In this case 
> the failure is caused by GC, and it is always hard to handle such issues. In 
> case of a dict you can just copy it before iterating. But what to do with 
> RuntimeError from slicing a list if copying a list is vulnerable to the same 
> issue?

This issue was found by fuzzing with weird destructor. I don't think that 
anyone will hit the bug with "normal" code in the wild. Otherwise, we would 
have get a bug report before this one.

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