List slice assignment and custom sequences

[Michael Hudson]

Ronald Oussoren <oussoren at cistron.nl> writes:

> No, I want to replace part of a sequence by another sequence. I don't
> understand _why_ the RHS must be a list if the LHS is one. 

Because Objects/listobject.c:list_ass_slice pokes directly into the
object passed on the RHS.

A patch to change this would have some chance of getting accepted;
wouldn't like to guess what, but I'd hazard non-zero.

Cheers,
M.

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