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authorTerry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>2019-07-06 21:40:27 (GMT)
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2019-07-06 21:40:27 (GMT)
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bpo-37487: Fix PyList_GetItem index description. (GH-14623)
0 is a legal index.
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@@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ List Objects
.. c:function:: PyObject* PyList_GetItem(PyObject *list, Py_ssize_t index)
Return the object at position *index* in the list pointed to by *list*. The
- position must be positive, indexing from the end of the list is not
- supported. If *index* is out of bounds, return *NULL* and set an
- :exc:`IndexError` exception.
+ position must be non-negative; indexing from the end of the list is not
+ supported. If *index* is out of bounds (<0 or >=len(list)),
+ return *NULL* and set an :exc:`IndexError` exception.
.. c:function:: PyObject* PyList_GET_ITEM(PyObject *list, Py_ssize_t i)