[Python-ideas] Where did we go wrong with negative stride?

[Ethan Furman]

On 10/27/2013 10:04 AM, Guido van Rossum wrote:
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> Thoughts? Is NumPy also affected?

It seems to me that the issue is not with negative strides, but with negative indexing:

   - off by one errors because the end starts at -1 and not -0
   - calculation errors because the end is -1 and not -0

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~Ethan~