Remove the simple slicing API. All slicing is now done with slice objects.
diff --git a/Objects/stringobject.c b/Objects/stringobject.c
index 8d0f4b8..d263812 100644
--- a/Objects/stringobject.c
+++ b/Objects/stringobject.c
@@ -965,29 +965,6 @@
return (PyObject *) op;
}
-/* String slice a[i:j] consists of characters a[i] ... a[j-1] */
-
-static PyObject *
-string_slice(register PyStringObject *a, register Py_ssize_t i,
- register Py_ssize_t j)
- /* j -- may be negative! */
-{
- if (i < 0)
- i = 0;
- if (j < 0)
- j = 0; /* Avoid signed/unsigned bug in next line */
- if (j > Py_Size(a))
- j = Py_Size(a);
- if (i == 0 && j == Py_Size(a) && PyString_CheckExact(a)) {
- /* It's the same as a */
- Py_INCREF(a);
- return (PyObject *)a;
- }
- if (j < i)
- j = i;
- return PyString_FromStringAndSize(a->ob_sval + i, j-i);
-}
-
static int
string_contains(PyObject *str_obj, PyObject *sub_obj)
{
@@ -1193,7 +1170,7 @@
(binaryfunc)string_concat, /*sq_concat*/
(ssizeargfunc)string_repeat, /*sq_repeat*/
(ssizeargfunc)string_item, /*sq_item*/
- (ssizessizeargfunc)string_slice, /*sq_slice*/
+ 0, /*sq_slice*/
0, /*sq_ass_item*/
0, /*sq_ass_slice*/
(objobjproc)string_contains /*sq_contains*/