From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sat, 6 Jul 2019 21:55:41 +0000 (-0700) Subject: bpo-37487: Fix PyList_GetItem index description. (GH-14623) (GH-14626) X-Git-Tag: v2.7.17rc1~35 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=dd3862e167d573b6e9a3348c365229ca958d1f1f;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git bpo-37487: Fix PyList_GetItem index description. (GH-14623) (GH-14626) 0 is a legal index. (cherry picked from commit f8709e804d16ec5d44b1d2f00d59a0f78df7b792) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy --- diff --git a/Doc/c-api/list.rst b/Doc/c-api/list.rst index 0aed0f3e8899..a5e4a45492b6 100644 --- a/Doc/c-api/list.rst +++ b/Doc/c-api/list.rst @@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ List Objects .. c:function:: PyObject* PyList_GetItem(PyObject *list, Py_ssize_t index) Return the object at position *index* in the list pointed to by *list*. The - position must be positive, indexing from the end of the list is not - supported. If *index* is out of bounds, return *NULL* and set an - :exc:`IndexError` exception. + position must be non-negative; indexing from the end of the list is not + supported. If *index* is out of bounds (<0 or >=len(list)), + return *NULL* and set an :exc:`IndexError` exception. .. versionchanged:: 2.5 This function used an :c:type:`int` for *index*. This might require diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-17-19-26.bpo-37487.QagfZ5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-17-19-26.bpo-37487.QagfZ5.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..605d08c3c040 --- /dev/null +++ b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-17-19-26.bpo-37487.QagfZ5.rst @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Fix PyList_GetItem index description to include 0.