Improve extended slicing support in builtin types and classes. Specifically:

 - Specialcase extended slices that amount to a shallow copy the same way as
   is done for simple slices, in the tuple, string and unicode case.

 - Specialcase step-1 extended slices to optimize the common case for all
   involved types.

 - For lists, allow extended slice assignment of differing lengths as long
   as the step is 1. (Previously, 'l[:2:1] = []' failed even though
   'l[:2] = []' and 'l[:2:None] = []' do not.)

 - Implement extended slicing for buffer, array, structseq, mmap and
   UserString.UserString.

 - Implement slice-object support (but not non-step-1 slice assignment) for
   UserString.MutableString.

 - Add tests for all new functionality.

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Objects/tupleobject.c b/Objects/tupleobject.c
index 4d4a9ad..f1e3aee 100644
--- a/Objects/tupleobject.c
+++ b/Objects/tupleobject.c
@@ -603,6 +603,12 @@ tuplesubscript(PyTupleObject* self, PyObject* item)
 		if (slicelength <= 0) {
 			return PyTuple_New(0);
 		}
+		else if (start == 0 && step == 1 &&
+			 slicelength == PyTuple_GET_SIZE(self) &&
+			 PyTuple_CheckExact(self)) {
+			Py_INCREF(self);
+			return (PyObject *)self;
+		}
 		else {
 			result = PyTuple_New(slicelength);
 			if (!result) return NULL;