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authorGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2014-10-31 09:39:29 (GMT)
committerGeorg Brandl <georg@python.org>2014-10-31 09:39:29 (GMT)
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@@ -619,8 +619,8 @@ slice list contains no proper slice).
single: stop (slice object attribute)
single: step (slice object attribute)
-The semantics for a slicing are as follows. The primary must evaluate to a
-mapping object, and it is indexed (using the same :meth:`__getitem__` method as
+The semantics for a slicing are as follows. The primary is indexed (using the
+same :meth:`__getitem__` method as
normal subscription) with a key that is constructed from the slice list, as
follows. If the slice list contains at least one comma, the key is a tuple
containing the conversion of the slice items; otherwise, the conversion of the