Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment: The behaviour is by design (I think), though perhaps the error messages could be improved.
Are you asking for negative indices and extra space to be accepted? In that case this should be a feature request rather than a bug report. ---------- nosy: +eric.smith, mark.dickinson _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue8985> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
