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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients larry, martin.panter, mdk, rhettinger, serhiy.storchaka, vstinner
Date 2016-11-26.19:18:14
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I would suggest to use sys.maxsize for default value in Argument Clinic, but right now bisect functions don't support well hi > len(a). This needs adding an equivalent of hi = min(hi, len(a)) in C code.

-1 could be explicitly supported for backward compatibility. But it could be deprecated.
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2016-11-26 19:18:14serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, rhettinger, vstinner, larry, martin.panter, mdk
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