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Author	steven.daprano
Recipients	Arfrever, llllllllll, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, steven.daprano
Date	2015-06-04.11:14:19
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Message-id	<1433416459.36.0.0896500063192.issue24379@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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I'm with Serhiy, I don't think we need a "literal", just make slice itself indexable: reverse = slice(None, None, -1) reverse = slice[::-1] The only question in my mind is what slice should do when given just a single index: slice[0] I suppose that should be a ValueError?

I'm with Serhiy, I don't think we need a "literal", just make slice itself indexable:

reverse = slice(None, None, -1)
reverse = slice[::-1]

The only question in my mind is what slice should do when given just a single index:

slice[0]

I suppose that should be a ValueError?

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