From: R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 02:30:42 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: whatsnew: slice.index no longer accepts negative values (or overflows).
X-Git-Tag: v3.4.1rc1~233^2~363
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=04e24288e1b203280794795542a480277d19e820;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

whatsnew: slice.index no longer accepts negative values (or overflows).
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
index b1ef2775b23e..8e028e66031b 100644
--- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
+++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst
@@ -1720,6 +1720,11 @@ Changes in the Python API
   informative :exc:`ValueError` rather than the previous more mysterious
   :exc:`AttributeError` (:issue:`9177`).
 
+* :meth:`slice.indices` no longer produces an :exc:`OverflowError` for huge
+  values.  As a consequence of this fix, :meth:`slice.indices` now raises a
+  :exc:`ValueError` if given a negative length; previously it returned nonsense
+  values (:issue:`14794`).
+
 
 Changes in the C API
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