Roundup Robot added the comment:
New changeset 7ecca1a98220 by Andrew Kuchling in branch '3.3':
Closes #18220: expand itertools.islice docstring to 2 lines
http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/7ecca1a98220
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nosy: +python-dev
resolution: -> fixed
stage: patch review -> committed/rejected
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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
The problem with all of range, slice, and islice is that
[start,] stop [, step] is an impossible signature and needed to be changed.
The actual signature is
start_or_stop, [stop, [step]]
with customized processing to interpret start_or_stop according to the pre
