[issue28614] Slice limit documentation is incorrect

2016-11-04 Thread airwin
airwin added the comment: You can easily prove the limit is correct for real numbers. So I would be willing to accept as a resolution of this issue that the type of division that is going on here is real. However, that is a bit disquieting since if you try a real slice index you get

[issue28614] Slice limit documentation is incorrect

2016-11-04 Thread airwin
New submission from airwin: Note 5 (at <https://docs.python.org/2/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-str-unicode-list-tuple-bytearray-buffer-xrange> for Python 2 and at <https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#common-sequence-operations> for Python 3) concerning s[i:j:k