Ethan Furman wrote: > Terry Reedy wrote: >> In 3.x, you would write __setitem__ to recognize that the 'key' is a >> slice object rather than an int and act accordingly. (In 2.x, you would >> write __setslice__.) > > I'm not sure how far back it goes, but at least from 2.4 forward > __setitem__ works with slices just fine.
The __...slice__() methods are deprecated since 2.0. http://docs.python.org/release/2.0/ref/sequence-methods.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
