[issue6305] islice doesn't accept large stop values

[Raymond Hettinger]

Raymond Hettinger <rhettinger at users.sourceforge.net> added the comment:

Clarified the error message in r73535.

Leaving open as a feature request to support arbitrarily large indices.

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components: +Extension Modules
type: behavior -> feature request
versions: +Python 2.7, Python 3.2 -Python 3.0

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