Eric Smith <e...@trueblade.com> added the comment:

I can see the point of allowing negative indices for a consistency point, but 
is there really any practical problem that's currently causing people hardship 
that this would solve?

As for the rest of it, I think it's just not worth the additional burden on 
CPython and other implementations.

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