Slice inconsistency?

[Michael Hudson]

roberto at dealmeida.net (Roberto A. F. De Almeida) writes:

> I found that when using negative indices, the slice object passed to
> __getitem__ depends on the number of slices.

It's bit of a pest for me to check things right now, but: are you
using Python 2.3?  Things *may* have changed here.

Cheers,
mwh

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