> >>>>> "RT" == Robin Thomas <robin.thomas@starmedia.net> writes:
>
> RT> Using Python 2.0 on Win32. Am I the only person to be depressed
> RT> by the following behavior now that __getitem__ does the work of
> RT> __getslice__?
Jeremy:
> You may the only person to have tried it :-).
>
> RT> Python 2.0 (#8, Oct 16 2000, 17:27:58) [MSC 32 bit (Intel)] on win32
> >>> d = {}
> >>> d[0:1] = 1
> >>> d
> {slice(0, 1, None): 1}
>
> I think this should raise a TypeError (as you suggested later).
Me too, but it's such an unusual corner-case that I can't worry about
it too much. The problem has to do with being backwards compatible --
we couldn't add the 3rd argument to the slice API that we wanted.
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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