[issue27479] Slicing strings out of bounds does not raise IndexError

Eryk Sun added the comment: This is documented behavior for the built-in sequence types [1], and it's also mentioned in the tutorial [2]. The indices() method of a slice object shows the resolved bounds for given sequence length: >>> slice(-1000, 1000, 1).indices(4) (0, 4, 1) >>>

[issue27479] Slicing strings out of bounds does not raise IndexError

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[issue27479] Slicing strings out of bounds does not raise IndexError

New submission from Elizabeth Myers: When slicing strings, IndexError is not raised when the slices are out of bounds, even for negative indexes. Like so: >>> "test"[-1000:1000] 'test' >>> "test"[-1000:1] 't' >>> ""[-100:100] '' This seems more like a bug than useful behaviour to me. --

[issue27479] Slicing strings out of bounds does not raise IndexError

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