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

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Sat Jul 29 05:11:57 CEST 2006


Guido van Rossum wrote:

In my recollection I tried to avoid this exact behavior. I wanted index() to just return the unclipped int or long value, but have a C API that clipped it for use in slice operations.

So is there still a chance to fix it?

-- Greg



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