[Doc-SIG] Re: [Python-Dev] [development doc updates]

[Gary Herron]

Fred,

Reading the "What's New in Python 2.3" section, I find the following
sentence in "5 Extended Slices":

  Ever since Python 1.4 the slice syntax has supported a third
  ``Stride'' argument, but the builtin sequence types have not
  supported this feature (it was initially included at the behest of
  the developers of the Numerical Python package). This changes with
  Python 2.3.

This is ambiguous.  Exactly *HOW* does it change with Python 2.3?
Does the stride argument go away, or do builtin sequence types now
support the stride argument?  If I'd followed this newsgroup more
carefully, I'd probably know the answer.

The paragraph about PendingDeprecationWarning, which follows the above
quote, probably provides a clue, but it seems out of place, having
nothing to do with slices.

Gary Herron
gherron@islandtraining.com