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authorNitish Chandra <nitishchandrachinta@gmail.com>2017-12-12 10:22:30 (GMT)
committerVictor Stinner <victor.stinner@gmail.com>2017-12-12 10:22:30 (GMT)
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bpo-31942: Document optional support of start and stop attributes in Sequence.index method (#4277)
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@@ -973,9 +973,9 @@ Notes:
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``index`` raises :exc:`ValueError` when *x* is not found in *s*.
- When supported, the additional arguments to the index method allow
- efficient searching of subsections of the sequence. Passing the extra
- arguments is roughly equivalent to using ``s[i:j].index(x)``, only
+ Not all implementations support passing the additional arguments *i* and *j*.
+ These arguments allow efficient searching of subsections of the sequence. Passing
+ the extra arguments is roughly equivalent to using ``s[i:j].index(x)``, only
without copying any data and with the returned index being relative to
the start of the sequence rather than the start of the slice.