Bug in slice type

[Bryan Olson]

Steven Bethard wrote:
 > I suspect there's a reason that it's done this way, but I agree with you
 > that this seems strange.  Have you filed a bug report on Sourceforge?

I gather that the slice class is young, so my guess is bug. I
filed the report -- my first Sourceforge bug report.

 > BTW, a simpler example of the same phenomenon is:
 >
 > py> range(10)[slice(None, None, -2)]
 > [9, 7, 5, 3, 1]
 > py> slice(None, None, -2).indices(10)
 > (9, -1, -2)
 > py> range(10)[9:-1:-2]
 > []

Ah, thanks.


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--Bryan