[Python-3000] Removing simple slicing

[Guido van Rossum]

Oh, good! Forget what I said about 2.6 then. :-)

On 8/24/07, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:
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>
> On 8/24/07, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> > On 8/24/07, Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org> wrote:
> > > If nobody cares, I will be checking these patches into the trunk this
> > > weekend (after updating them), and then update and check in the rest of
> the
> > > p3yk-noslice branch into the py3k branch.
> >
> > In the trunk? I'm concerned that that might make it (ever so slightly)
> > incompatible with 2.5, and we're trying to make it as easy as possible
> > to migrate to 2.6. Or perhaps you're just proposing to change the
> > standard builtin types to always use the extended API, without
> > removing the possibility of user types (either in C or in Python)
> > using the simple API, at least in 2.6?
>
> The changes I uploaded only implement (and in some cases, fix some bugs in)
> extended slicing support in various builtin types. None of the API changes
> would be backported (although 2.6 in py3k-warning-mode should obviously tell
> people to not define __getslice__, and instead accept slice objects in
> __getitem__. Perhaps even when not in py3k-warnings-mode.)
>
> --
> Thomas Wouters <thomas at python.org>
>
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