diff -r 3019effc44f2 Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst	Mon Mar 02 11:17:05 2015 -0500
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst	Fri Mar 13 10:36:10 2015 +0200
@@ -1995,7 +1995,7 @@
 
    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
+   expression are replaced by zero or ``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