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Author eric.smith
Recipients eric.araujo, eric.smith, gosella, mark.dickinson, mrabarnett
Date 2010-06-14.21:20:28
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I can see the point of allowing negative indices for a consistency point, but is there really any practical problem that's currently causing people hardship that this would solve?

As for the rest of it, I think it's just not worth the additional burden on CPython and other implementations.
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