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authorTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2004-07-31 21:53:19 (GMT)
committerTim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com>2004-07-31 21:53:19 (GMT)
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list_ass_slice(): Document the obscure new intent that deleting a slice
of no more than 8 elements cannot fail. listpop(): Take advantage of that its calls to list_resize() and list_ass_slice() can't fail. This is assert'ed in a debug build now, but in an icky way. That is, you can't say: assert(some_call() >= 0); because then some_call() won't occur at all in a release build. So it has to be a big pile of #ifdefs on Py_DEBUG (yuck), or the pleasant: status = some_call(); assert(status >= 0); But in that case, compilers may whine in a release build, because status appears unused then. I'm not certain the ugly trick I used here will convince all compilers to shut up about status (status is always "used" now, as the first (ignored) clause in a comma expression).
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