New submission from Gaëtan de Menten: The documentation for __getslice__ at https://docs.python.org/2/reference/datamodel.html#object.__getslice__ states: "Note that missing i or j in the slice expression are replaced by zero or sys.maxint, respectively."
However, in practice, it seems like it is replaced by sys.maxsize instead. This is obviously only a problem for 64bit versions of Python 2 since sys.maxint and sys.maxsize are the same on 32bit Python. In [1]: class A(object): ...: def __getslice__(self, i, j): ...: print i, j ...: In [2]: a = A() In [3]: a[:] 0 9223372036854775807 In [4]: import sys In [5]: sys.maxint Out[5]: 2147483647 In [6]: sys.maxsize Out[6]: 9223372036854775807L In [7]: sys.version Out[7]: '2.7.9 |Continuum Analytics, Inc.| (default, Dec 18 2014, 16:57:52) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)]' ---------- assignee: docs@python components: Documentation messages: 237947 nosy: docs@python, gdementen priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: Incorrect doc for __getslice__ versions: Python 2.7 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23645> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
