Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment: I can see the point of allowing negative indices for a consistency point, but is there really any practical problem that's currently causing people hardship that this would solve?
As for the rest of it, I think it's just not worth the additional burden on CPython and other implementations. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue7951> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com