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  Re: __setitem__ without position Peter Otten <__peter__@web.de> - 2012-10-12 18:42 +0200

#31167 — Re: __setitem__ without position

Ethan Furman wrote:

> 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.

The __...slice__() methods are deprecated since 2.0.

http://docs.python.org/release/2.0/ref/sequence-methods.html

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