Antoine Pitrou <pit...@free.fr> added the comment: > Why did the list implementation get changed in Py3.x? Is it now > necessary for any subscripting type to put the same method in both the > sequence methods and mapping methods? Was this change necessary?
I think it's a case of foolish consistency. In py3k there are no opcodes dedicated to slicing anymore, instead the slice object is passed to the mapping's getitem method. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue5945> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
