[New-bugs-announce] [issue30138] Incorrect documentation of replacement of slice of length 0

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

New submission from Stephen J. Turnbull:

In section 4.6.3. "Mutable Sequence Types" of current documentation, Note 1 to the table says "[iterable] t must have the same length as the slice it is replacing." This is incorrect in the case of extension: s[len(s):] = t according to the rest of the documentation, as well as experiment.

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assignee: docs at python
components: Documentation
keywords: easy
messages: 292127
nosy: docs at python, sjt
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Incorrect documentation of replacement of slice of length 0
type: behavior
versions: Python 3.7

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