[ python-Bugs-1332780 ] Inaccurate footnote 1 in Lib ref, sect 2.3.6.4

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Bugs item #1332780, was opened at 2005-10-20 04:03
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Category: Documentation
Group: None
>Status: Closed
>Resolution: Invalid
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Andy (strangefeatures)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Inaccurate footnote 1 in Lib ref, sect 2.3.6.4

Initial Comment:
In the the library reference on mutable sequence types
(http://docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-mutable.html) ,
footnote (1) states:

  t must have the same length as the slice it is replacing

with reference to s[i:j] = t assignments. This is not
true (as other comments on the page imply). It should
either be:
(a) removed
(b) changed to: 
    t does not need to have the same length as the
slice it is replacing


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>Comment By: Reinhold Birkenfeld (birkenfeld)
Date: 2005-10-20 09:37

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Footnote 1 refers to extended slice assignment with a "step"
argument, and for that, it is true.

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