2.2.2 Annoyance

[Terry Reedy]

"Jegenye 2001 Bt" <nospam at nowhere.hu> wrote in message
news:bpoo6c$nhh$1 at namru.matavnet.hu...
> According to the manuals of Python 2.2.2, passing a slice object to
...
> Would someone care to pass on this info to whom this  may concern?

2.2.2 was superceded by 2.2.3.  This info is only of concern to people
who have and will not upgrade to 2.3.

> For Python 2.3  passing a slice object to __getitem__ does work
though.

2.3 fixed more bugs beyond 2.2.3, added a couple of builtins, and
several modules.  This change in behavior between 2.2.2 and 2.3 was
almost certainly intentional, due someone already noticing what you
did.

tjr