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

Nick Coghlan ncoghlan at gmail.com
Sat Jul 29 05:49:51 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).

It can actually, but you have to allow 3 possible error return values from nb_index (-1, PY_SSIZE_T_MIN and PY_SSIZE_T_MAX).

This is ugly as hell [1], so I'm going to try to work out a patch that changes the signature of nb_index to return PyObject * (leaving the client code in the core to decide whether to clip, overflow, or leave the result alone).

Cheers, Nick.

[1] http://www.python.org/sf/1530738

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