TypeError: slice index must be int ?

[Skip Montanaro]

    Hao> Is it possible to use long int (say 2000000000L) to slice a string
    Hao> with gigabytes size?

Apparently not:

    >>> import string
    >>> string.letters[5L:10L]
    Traceback (innermost last):
      File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
    TypeError: 'slice index must be int'

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