On Sun, 30 May 2010 00:49:11 +0100 Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> wrote: > From http://docs.python.org/dev/library/itertools.html > "Unlike regular slicing, islice() does not support negative values > for start, stop, or step." > > Rule 1 of programming never assume anything, particularly wrt > testing. I assume that you are ok with this. :) Dreadful I know :)
Right, never post before reading the fine manual :) > > I found the msg97928 code pretty obvious when seeing the snippet. > > If you disagree you may consider re-opening the issue. > I trust that you get my point regarding the failure to raise a > ValueError :) Or am I wearing my extremely stupid hat today? Since you seem to find this issue important, are you going to re-open the issue? Cheers Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
