[issue14178] Failing tests for ElementTree

[Eli Bendersky]

Eli Bendersky <eliben at gmail.com> added the comment:

Attaching a patch that fixes the slice deletion problems.

The approach I've taken is follow a similar implementation in Objects/listobject.c; when a slice is deleted, it can be done efficiently by using memmove to shift whole blocks of leftover children.

Also added a new test class to test_xml_etree specifically to test slicing with Element objects and deleting slices with strange steps.

I'll leave it up for review for a couple of days before committing.

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keywords: +patch
nosy: +effbot
Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file24743/issue14178.1.patch

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