[Python-3000-checkins] r59304 - in python/branches/py3k: Doc/ACKS.txt Doc/c-api/init.rst Doc/c-api/utilities.rst Doc/data/refcounts.dat Doc/glossary.rst Doc/library/exceptions.rst Doc/library/random.rst Doc/library/simplexmlrpcserver.rst Doc/library/xmlrpclib.rst Doc/reference/expressions.rst Doc/using/cmdline.rst Doc/whatsnew/2.6.rst Lib/decimal.py Lib/distutils/command/build_ext.py Lib/distutils/cygwinccompiler.py Lib/distutils/msvc9compiler.py Lib/distutils/msvccompiler.py Lib/random.py Lib/runpy.py Lib/test/exception_hierarchy.txt Lib/test/randv2_32.pck Lib/test/randv2_64.pck Lib/test/randv3.pck Lib/test/test_cmd_line_script.py Lib/test/test_frozen.py Lib/test/test_generators.py Lib/test/test_pkg.py Lib/test/test_random.py Lib/test/test_runpy.py Misc/ACKS Modules/_randommodule.c Modules/xxmodule.c Objects/exceptions.c Objects/moduleobject.c Tools/msi/msi.py

[Georg Brandl]

christian.heimes schrieb:

> Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/glossary.rst
> ==============================================================================
> --- python/branches/py3k/Doc/glossary.rst	(original)
> +++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/glossary.rst	Mon Dec  3 22:02:03 2007
> @@ -400,7 +400,7 @@
>        :term:`immutable` keys rather than integers.
>  
>     slice
> -      An object usually containing a portion of a :term:`sequence`.  A slice is
> +      A list containing a portion of an indexed list-like object.  A slice is
>        created using the subscript notation, ``[]`` with colons between numbers
>        when several are given, such as in ``variable_name[1:3:5]``.  The bracket
>        (subscript) notation uses :class:`slice` objects internally.

That seems to be an accident. The original is correct.

Georg