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Re: __setitem__ without position

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Terry Reedy wrote:
> In 3.x, you would write __setitem__ to recognize that the 'key' is a 
> slice object rather than an int and act accordingly. (In 2.x, you would 
> write __setslice__.) 

I'm not sure how far back it goes, but at least from 2.4 forward 
__setitem__ works with slices just fine.

~Ethan~

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Re: __setitem__ without position Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2012-10-12 09:16 -0700

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