[issue5888] mmap ehancement - resize with sequence notation

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[issue5888] mmap ehancement - resize with sequence notation

Josh Rosenberg added the comment: I see a few issues with this: 1. Changing the default behavior is a compatibility issue. I've written code that depends on exceptions being raised if slice assignment sizes don't match. 2. The performance cost is high; changing from rewriting in place to shrink

[issue5888] mmap ehancement - resize with sequence notation

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[issue5888] mmap ehancement - resize with sequence notation

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[issue5888] mmap ehancement - resize with sequence notation

New submission from Brian Mearns : I thought it would be nice if mmaps could generally look a little more like sequences. Specifically, being able to resize+write using square-bracket notation as with lists: >>> x = [1,2,3,4,5] >>> x [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] >>> x[2:2] = [6,7,8,9] >>> x [1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9