2.2.2 Annoyance

[Michael Hudson]

"Miklós" <nospam at nowhere.hu> writes:

> I understand the rationale for deprecating '__getslice__' from v2.0
> onwards was to make sequences and mappings to look more alike. But
> then this change for __getitem__ should have been absolutely
> introduced at that time or the semantics of CPython between 2.0 and
> 2.2 doesn't make sense in this respect... Am I right in that?

Well, sort of.  Back in the 2.0 days you couldn't even write:

    >>> [].__getitem__

so

    >>> [].__getitem__(slice(0,1))

was right out!  It's all a bit messy, and it's sorted out in 2.3.

Cheers,
mwh

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