whatsnew: slice.index no longer accepts negative values (or overflows).

48734bd3 · R David Murray · d26222de · 48734bd3
Commit 48734bd3 authored Feb 10, 2014 by R David Murray
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@@ -1720,6 +1720,11 @@ Changes in the Python API
  informative :exc:`ValueError` rather than the previous more mysterious
  :exc:`AttributeError` (:issue:`9177`).

+* :meth:`slice.indices` no longer produces an :exc:`OverflowError` for huge
+  values.  As a consequence of this fix, :meth:`slice.indices` now raises a
+  :exc:`ValueError` if given a negative length; previously it returned nonsense
+  values (:issue:`14794`).
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 Changes in the C API
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