Author: Tyler Wade <way...@gmail.com>
Branch: fix-bytearray-complexity
Changeset: r72074:16631b4ddbab
Date: 2014-06-16 09:42 -0500
http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/16631b4ddbab/
Log: Document that slicing with negative indices isn't support when
overriding __getslice__.
diff --git a/pypy/doc/coding-guide.rst b/pypy/doc/coding-guide.rst
--- a/pypy/doc/coding-guide.rst
+++ b/pypy/doc/coding-guide.rst
@@ -352,7 +352,8 @@
``__init__``, ``__del__``, ``__len__``, ``__getitem__``, ``__setitem__``,
``__getslice__``, ``__setslice__``, and ``__iter__``. To handle slicing,
``__getslice__`` and ``__setslice__`` must be used; using ``__getitem__`` and
- ``__setitem__`` for slicing isn't supported.
+ ``__setitem__`` for slicing isn't supported. Additionally, using negative
+ indices for slicing is still not support, even when using ``__getslice__``.
This layout makes the number of types to take care about quite limited.
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