On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.ke...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: >> On 30/10/2012 18:02, Ian Kelly wrote: >>> >>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote: >>>> >>>> File a bug report? >>> >>> >>> Looks like it's already been wontfixed back in 2006: >>> >>> http://bugs.python.org/issue1501180 >>> >> >> Absolutely bloody typical, turned down because of an idiot. Who the hell is >> Tim Peters anyway? :) > > I don't really disagree with him, anyway. It is a rather obscure bug > -- is it worth increasing the memory footprint of slice objects by 80% > in order to fix it?
Bug report: If I take this gun, aim it at my foot, and pull the trigger, sometimes a hole appears in my foot. This is hardly normal use of slice objects. And the penalty isn't a serious one unless you're creating cycles repeatedly. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
