Negative array indicies and slice()

[Ian Kelly]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> On 30/10/2012 18:02, Ian Kelly wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 10:14 AM, Ethan Furman <ethan at stoneleaf.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> File a bug report?
>>
>>
>> Looks like it's already been wontfixed back in 2006:
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>> http://bugs.python.org/issue1501180
>>
>
> Absolutely bloody typical, turned down because of an idiot.  Who the hell is
> Tim Peters anyway? :)

I don't really disagree with him, anyway.  It is a rather obscure bug
-- is it worth increasing the memory footprint of slice objects by 80%
in order to fix it?