From b965629a42d137ddfafea1eb35c5e92c0b2c54f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 18:22:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Issue 10889: Added entry for handling of indexing and slicing with ranges bigger than sys.maxsize. --- Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index 3e7f007fc15..8dc241a2df8 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -541,8 +541,8 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: of an effort to make more objects fully implement the :class:`collections.Sequence` :term:`abstract base class`. As a result, the language will have a more uniform API. In addition, :class:`range` objects - now support slicing and negative indices. This makes *range* more - interoperable with lists:: + now support slicing and negative indices, even with values larger than + :attr:`sys.maxsize`. This makes *range* more interoperable with lists:: >>> range(0, 100, 2).count(10) 1 @@ -553,8 +553,8 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: >>> range(0, 100, 2)[0:5] range(0, 10, 2) - (Contributed by Daniel Stutzbach in :issue:`9213` and by Alexander Belopolsky - in :issue:`2690`.) + (Contributed by Daniel Stutzbach in :issue:`9213`, by Alexander Belopolsky + in :issue:`2690`, and by Nick Coghlan in :issue:`10889`.) * The :func:`callable` builtin function from Py2.x was resurrected. It provides a concise, readable alternative to using an :term:`abstract base class` in an