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  r73190 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-04 01:23:45 +0200 (Do, 04 Jun 2009) | 2 lines

  Avoid PendingDeprecationWarnings emitted by deprecated unittest methods.
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  r73213 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-04 12:15:57 +0200 (Do, 04 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #5967: note that the C slicing APIs do not support negative indices.
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  r73257 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-06 19:50:05 +0200 (Sa, 06 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #6211: elaborate a bit on ways to call the function.
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  r73258 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-06 19:51:31 +0200 (Sa, 06 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #6204: use a real reference instead of "see later".
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  r73260 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-06 20:21:58 +0200 (Sa, 06 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #6224: s/JPython/Jython/, and remove one link to a module nine years old.
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  r73275 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-07 22:37:52 +0200 (So, 07 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  Add Ezio.
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  r73294 | georg.brandl | 2009-06-08 15:34:52 +0200 (Mo, 08 Jun 2009) | 1 line

  #6194: O_SHLOCK/O_EXLOCK are not really more platform independent than lockf().
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Doc/c-api/list.rst b/Doc/c-api/list.rst
index 7b8cd5c..c76644a 100644
--- a/Doc/c-api/list.rst
+++ b/Doc/c-api/list.rst
@@ -112,9 +112,10 @@ List Objects
 
 .. cfunction:: PyObject* PyList_GetSlice(PyObject *list, Py_ssize_t low, Py_ssize_t high)
 
-   Return a list of the objects in *list* containing the objects *between*
-   *low* and *high*.  Return *NULL* and set an exception if unsuccessful.
-   Analogous to ``list[low:high]``.
+   Return a list of the objects in *list* containing the objects *between* *low*
+   and *high*.  Return *NULL* and set an exception if unsuccessful.  Analogous
+   to ``list[low:high]``.  Negative indices, as when slicing from Python, are not
+   supported.
 
 
 .. cfunction:: int PyList_SetSlice(PyObject *list, Py_ssize_t low, Py_ssize_t high, PyObject *itemlist)
@@ -122,7 +123,8 @@ List Objects
    Set the slice of *list* between *low* and *high* to the contents of
    *itemlist*.  Analogous to ``list[low:high] = itemlist``. The *itemlist* may
    be *NULL*, indicating the assignment of an empty list (slice deletion).
-   Return ``0`` on success, ``-1`` on failure.
+   Return ``0`` on success, ``-1`` on failure.  Negative indices, as when
+   slicing from Python, are not supported.
 
 
 .. cfunction:: int PyList_Sort(PyObject *list)