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Tue Sep 6 01:14:25 EDT 2005 · http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-September/307148.html

Terry Reedy wrote:
>>Ron Adam wrote:
>>
>>
>>>However, I would like the inverse selection of negative strides to be
>>>fixed if possible.  If you could explain the current reason why it does
>>>not return the reverse order of the selected range.
> 
> 
> To repeat, the current reason is compatibility with the original design for 
> NumPy.  Perhaps there is some explanation for that in sliceobject.c (or 
> whatever the file is called), the CVS checkin messages, or the newsgroup 
> archives before the first checkin (in 1996, I believe).
> 
> Terry J. Reedy

Thanks, I'll check the cvs, so far I havn't been able to find any 
references to it.

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Possible improvement to slice opperations.