[Python-Dev] Bad interaction of index and sequence repeat (original) (raw)

David Hopwood david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk
Sat Jul 29 02:14:21 CEST 2006

Martin v. Löwis wrote:

Travis Oliphant wrote:

I say it's a bug that should be fixed. Don't clear the error, raise it. Several people have said this, but I don't think it can work. If you raise an OverflowError in index, the slicing code cannot know whether this meant as overflow or underflow (in a signed sense).

Why not use IndexError for an underflow, and OverflowError for an overflow?

-- David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood at blueyonder.co.uk>

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