bckfnn@worldonline.dk (Finn Bock) writes:
> Hi,
>
> While updating the difference page in the Jython documentation, I
> came across this:
>
> - JPython sequences support three argument slices. i.e.
> range(3)[::-1] == [2,1,0].
> CPython should be fixed.
>
> Is this actually true? Should (and will cpython) change in this
> respect?
Well, there's a patch I wrote on sf to add this to CPython, but it was
too late for 2.0 and it got postponed.
Does J[P]ython allow
l = range(10)
l[::3] = range(4)
? That's one of the odder bits of the behaviour of my patch.
awaiting-pronouncement-(or-even-consensus)-ly y'rs
m.
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