Re: [Python-Dev] python3k change to slicing

2007-04-19 Thread Jon Ribbens
Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -1 Me too. > While this may be theoretically preferable, I believe that in practice > changing this would be a major pain for very little gain. I don't > recall ever finding a bug related to this feature, and I believe it's > occasionally useful. I f

Re: [Python-Dev] python3k change to slicing

2007-04-19 Thread Guido van Rossum
[+python-3000; followups please remove python-dev] -1 While this may be theoretically preferable, I believe that in practice changing this would be a major pain for very little gain. I don't recall ever finding a bug related to this feature, and I believe it's occasionally useful. Here's somethi