From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 08:41:06 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add warning about Lambert's bug.
X-Git-Tag: v0.9.8~978
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=bfe14c5c923c52410c729e849fbdf14df9502af3;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git

Add warning about Lambert's bug.
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diff --git a/Objects/listobject.c b/Objects/listobject.c
index e496fcbf9630..ce27834d96cc 100644
--- a/Objects/listobject.c
+++ b/Objects/listobject.c
@@ -344,6 +344,9 @@ list_repeat(a, n)
 	return (object *) np;
 }
 
+/* XXX The following function has a bug: don't try assigning a
+   XXX list object to a slice of itself (e.g., a[:1] = a). */
+
 static int
 list_ass_slice(a, ilow, ihigh, v)
 	listobject *a;