Slice confusing with negative stop and strides and the 0th element.
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Description
| BPO | 28882 |
|---|---|
| Nosy | @terryjreedy, @hardkrash, @vadmium, @MojoVampire |
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GitHub fields:
assignee = None
closed_at = None
created_at = <Date 2016-12-06.05:06:40.291>
labels = ['3.7', 'docs']
title = 'Slice confusing with negative stop and strides and the 0th element.'
updated_at = <Date 2016-12-10.00:28:35.180>
user = 'https://github.com/hardkrash'
bugs.python.org fields:
activity = <Date 2016-12-10.00:28:35.180>
actor = 'martin.panter'
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closed = False
closed_date = None
closer = None
components = ['Documentation']
creation = <Date 2016-12-06.05:06:40.291>
creator = 'hardkrash'
dependencies = []
files = []
hgrepos = []
issue_num = 28882
keywords = []
message_count = 6.0
messages = ['282500', '282501', '282578', '282801', '282810', '282814']
nosy_count = 5.0
nosy_names = ['terry.reedy', 'hardkrash', 'docs@python', 'martin.panter', 'josh.r']
pr_nums = []
priority = 'normal'
resolution = None
stage = 'needs patch'
status = 'open'
superseder = None
type = None
url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue28882'
versions = ['Python 3.5', 'Python 3.6', 'Python 3.7']
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First steps
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the discussion in BPO issue 28882 and the Python slicing documentation, focusing on negative stops, strides, and index 0. The work is done when the documentation clearly explains the reported slicing cases and the issue's confusion is resolved without changing Python behavior.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100