From: Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2006 12:45:51 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Bug #1464658: make clear that PyList_GetItem doesn't take negative indices.
X-Git-Tag: v2.5a2~404
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4dce8e4e69a75d4980583a194a5992f9fa3038e4;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Bug #1464658: make clear that PyList_GetItem doesn't take negative indices.
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diff --git a/Doc/api/concrete.tex b/Doc/api/concrete.tex
index 3a918beb947a..98e0e039ab59 100644
--- a/Doc/api/concrete.tex
+++ b/Doc/api/concrete.tex
@@ -1803,8 +1803,9 @@ format.
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyList_GetItem}{PyObject *list, Py_ssize_t index}
   Return the object at position \var{pos} in the list pointed to by
-  \var{p}.  If \var{pos} is out of bounds, return \NULL{} and set an
-  \exception{IndexError} exception.
+  \var{p}.  The position must be positive, indexing from the end of the
+  list is not supported.  If \var{pos} is out of bounds, return \NULL{}
+  and set an \exception{IndexError} exception.
 \end{cfuncdesc}
 
 \begin{cfuncdesc}{PyObject*}{PyList_GET_ITEM}{PyObject *list, Py_ssize_t i}