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diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst index 44901af..c61c55b 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst @@ -1993,15 +1993,15 @@ objects. Immutable sequences methods should at most only define :meth:`__getslice__`. Therefore, you have to override it in derived classes when implementing slicing.) - Called to implement evaluation of ``self[i:j]``. The returned object should be - of the same type as *self*. Note that missing *i* or *j* in the slice - expression are replaced by zero or ``sys.maxint``, respectively. If negative - indexes are used in the slice, the length of the sequence is added to that - index. If the instance does not implement the :meth:`__len__` method, an - :exc:`AttributeError` is raised. No guarantee is made that indexes adjusted this - way are not still negative. Indexes which are greater than the length of the - sequence are not modified. If no :meth:`__getslice__` is found, a slice object - is created instead, and passed to :meth:`__getitem__` instead. + Called to implement evaluation of ``self[i:j]``. The returned object should + be of the same type as *self*. Note that missing *i* or *j* in the slice + expression are replaced by zero or :attr:`sys.maxsize`, respectively. If + negative indexes are used in the slice, the length of the sequence is added + to that index. If the instance does not implement the :meth:`__len__` method, + an :exc:`AttributeError` is raised. No guarantee is made that indexes + adjusted this way are not still negative. Indexes which are greater than the + length of the sequence are not modified. If no :meth:`__getslice__` is found, + a slice object is created instead, and passed to :meth:`__getitem__` instead. .. method:: object.__setslice__(self, i, j, sequence) |