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Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 09:00:56 +1100
Subject: Re: Negative array indicies and slice()
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 8:47 AM, Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>> On 30/10/2012 18:02, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> File a bug report?
>>>
>>>
>>> Looks like it's already been wontfixed back in 2006:
>>>
>>> http://bugs.python.org/issue1501180
>>>
>>
>> Absolutely bloody typical, turned down because of an idiot.  Who the hell is
>> Tim Peters anyway? :)
>
> I don't really disagree with him, anyway.  It is a rather obscure bug
> -- is it worth increasing the memory footprint of slice objects by 80%
> in order to fix it?

Bug report: If I take this gun, aim it at my foot, and pull the
trigger, sometimes a hole appears in my foot.

This is hardly normal use of slice objects. And the penalty isn't a
serious one unless you're creating cycles repeatedly.

ChrisA