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  r77821 | mark.dickinson | 2010-01-29 17:11:39 +0000 (Fri, 29 Jan 2010) | 3 lines

  Issue #7788: Fix a crash produced by deleting a list slice with huge
  step value.  Patch by Marcin Bachry.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_array.py b/Lib/test/test_array.py
index 2c4c2fd..206042f 100755
--- a/Lib/test/test_array.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_array.py
@@ -850,6 +850,9 @@
         a = array.array(self.typecode, range(10))
         del a[::1000]
         self.assertEqual(a, array.array(self.typecode, [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9]))
+        # test issue7788
+        a = array.array(self.typecode, range(10))
+        del a[9::1<<333]
 
     def test_assignment(self):
         a = array.array(self.typecode, range(10))