[issue35985] Folding tries to slice from 0 to float("+inf") when maxlength is 0

[Lukas J]

Lukas J <postbotenamt at gmail.com> added the comment:

Indeed it is. Sorry I didn't find it before.

So it seems that changing float("+inf") to sys.maxsize would solve the problem? I've tried it in an interactive shell:

>>> a = "asd"; import sys
>>> a[:sys.maxsize]
'asd'

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