[Python-3000] Changing behavior of sequence multiplication by negative integer (original) (raw)

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Thu Aug 10 16:33:27 CEST 2006

Jim Jewett wrote:

I would write it as

# Create a record-size pad outside the loop pad = " "*length ... seq = (seq+pad)[:length]

I'd generally do padding to a fixed length that way as well, but any code relying on the current 'clip to 0' behaviour would break if this changed. Without a really compelling reason to change it, it's hard to justify any breakage at all (even if there may be better ways of doing things).

While I take your point about the comparison to index, the difference is that clipping sequence repetition to 0 has been the expected behaviour for many releases, whereas in the index overflow case the expected behaviour was for the code to raise an exception.

Cheers, Nick.

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