[Patches] [ python-Patches-633870 ] allow any seq assignment to a list slice

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Patches item #633870, was opened at 2002-11-05 15:59
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Category: Core (C code)
Group: Python 2.3
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Alex Martelli (aleax)
>Assigned to: Guido van Rossum (gvanrossum)
Summary: allow any seq assignment to a list slice

Initial Comment:
as suggested by Michael Hudson in his comp.lang.python 
post of Tue, 5 Nov 2002 14:03:46 GMT, Subject "Re: List 
slice assignment and custom sequences", message id 
<m2k7jsm7u7.fsf@python.net> .  The patch affects 
Objects/listobject.c: with no performance impact when the 
RHS of an assignment to a list slice is a list, the patch also 
allows the RHS to be any other sequence object acceptable 
to PySequence_Fast -- just like such general sequences are 
acceptable today e.g. as arguments to the extend method, 
so the patch makes them acceptable as RHS in assignment 
to list slices.



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>Comment By: Michael Hudson (mwh)
Date: 2002-11-05 16:51

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I wonder if you'd get much performance hit from just using
PySequence_FAST the whole time?  All that does for a list
after all is Py_INCREF it (I hope you still have whatever
test harness you used to make your claims in the description).

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