[issue17939] Misleading information about slice assignment in docs

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[issue17939] Misleading information about slice assignment in docs

Terry J. Reedy added the comment: Since range objects have a known length, that example is not enough to show 'any iterable'. However, generators do not even have a __length_hint__ and they work too. a = [1,2,3] a[0:1] = (i for i in range(4)) print(a) >>> [0, 1, 2, 3, 2, 3] -- nosy:

[issue17939] Misleading information about slice assignment in docs

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[issue17939] Misleading information about slice assignment in docs

New submission from Stefan Chrobot: http://docs.python.org/3/reference/simple_stmts.html#assignment-statements The docs says: "If the target is a slicing: The primary expression in the reference is evaluated. It should yield a mutable sequence object (such as a list). The assigned object shou