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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sat Jul 29 00:44:46 CEST 2006

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).

Regards, Martin

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