Rationale behind the deprecation of __getslice__?

[Carl Banks]

Terry Reedy wrote:
> The overwhelmingl most common case of a simple slice is more
efficiently
> done by having a separate function since no slice object is created.

Why is __getslice__ deprecated, then?  I'm ok with keeping __getslice__
around as an optimization, but if you do that, I don't think it's a
good idea to deprecate it.


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CARL BANKS