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| author | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-10 21:30:42 -0500 |
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| committer | R David Murray <rdmurray@bitdance.com> | 2014-02-10 21:30:42 -0500 |
| commit | 04e24288e1b203280794795542a480277d19e820 (patch) | |
| tree | c8f3f44c3e3109e22d8923028642b240826578db | |
| parent | 8dffa0e5cf0640fe7f3ca2a4940f97889397f0a8 (diff) | |
| download | cpython-git-04e24288e1b203280794795542a480277d19e820.tar.gz | |
whatsnew: slice.index no longer accepts negative values (or overflows).
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diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst index b1ef2775b2..8e028e6603 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.4.rst @@ -1720,6 +1720,11 @@ Changes in the Python API informative :exc:`ValueError` rather than the previous more mysterious :exc:`AttributeError` (:issue:`9177`). +* :meth:`slice.indices` no longer produces an :exc:`OverflowError` for huge + values. As a consequence of this fix, :meth:`slice.indices` now raises a + :exc:`ValueError` if given a negative length; previously it returned nonsense + values (:issue:`14794`). + Changes in the C API -------------------- |