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authorMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2002-05-08 08:44:21 (GMT)
committerMartin v. Löwis <martin@v.loewis.de>2002-05-08 08:44:21 (GMT)
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Patch #552433: Special-case tuples. Avoid sub-type checking for lists.
Avoid checks for negative indices and duplicate checks for support of the sequence protocol.
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@@ -192,6 +192,10 @@ Build
C API
+- Added new macro PySequence_ITEM(o, i) that directly calls
+ sq_item without rechecking that o is a sequence and without
+ adjusting for negative indices.
+
- PyRange_New() now raises ValueError if the fourth argument is not 1.
This is part of the removal of deprecated features of the xrange
object.