Guido van Rossum added the comment: Alexander nailed my motivation.
Have the proponents for this change really thought through that making slices hashable means that henceforth this code will work? d = {} d[:] = [1, 2, 3] # surprise here print d # prints {slice(None, None, None): [1, 2, 3]} _____________________________________ Tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue1733184> _____________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com