From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 02:42:04 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Change docstrings for __(get|set|del)slice__ to note that negative indices are not... 
X-Git-Tag: v2.2.3c1~31
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a63d35f4869dec3b1f129fdcf58e284e6a50df5d;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Change docstrings for __(get|set|del)slice__ to note that negative indices are not supported.
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diff --git a/Objects/typeobject.c b/Objects/typeobject.c
index e4b4c5c2d748..0597921a105e 100644
--- a/Objects/typeobject.c
+++ b/Objects/typeobject.c
@@ -3702,16 +3702,22 @@ static slotdef slotdefs[] = {
 	SQSLOT("__getitem__", sq_item, slot_sq_item, wrap_sq_item,
 	       "x.__getitem__(y) <==> x[y]"),
 	SQSLOT("__getslice__", sq_slice, slot_sq_slice, wrap_intintargfunc,
-	       "x.__getslice__(i, j) <==> x[i:j]"),
+	       "x.__getslice__(i, j) <==> x[i:j]\n\
+               \n\
+               Use of negative indices is not supported."),
 	SQSLOT("__setitem__", sq_ass_item, slot_sq_ass_item, wrap_sq_setitem,
 	       "x.__setitem__(i, y) <==> x[i]=y"),
 	SQSLOT("__delitem__", sq_ass_item, slot_sq_ass_item, wrap_sq_delitem,
 	       "x.__delitem__(y) <==> del x[y]"),
 	SQSLOT("__setslice__", sq_ass_slice, slot_sq_ass_slice,
 	       wrap_intintobjargproc,
-	       "x.__setslice__(i, j, y) <==> x[i:j]=y"),
+	       "x.__setslice__(i, j, y) <==> x[i:j]=y\n\
+               \n\
+               Use of negative indices is not supported."),
 	SQSLOT("__delslice__", sq_ass_slice, slot_sq_ass_slice, wrap_delslice,
-	       "x.__delslice__(i, j) <==> del x[i:j]"),
+	       "x.__delslice__(i, j) <==> del x[i:j]\n\
+               \n\
+               Use of negative indices is not supported."),
 	SQSLOT("__contains__", sq_contains, slot_sq_contains, wrap_objobjproc,
 	       "x.__contains__(y) <==> y in x"),
 	SQSLOT("__iadd__", sq_inplace_concat, slot_sq_inplace_concat,