the default is sys.maxsize not sys.maxint (closes #23645)
diff --git a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
index 44901af..c61c55b 100644
--- a/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
+++ b/Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
@@ -1993,15 +1993,15 @@
:meth:`__getslice__`. Therefore, you have to override it in derived
classes when implementing slicing.)
- Called to implement evaluation of ``self[i:j]``. The returned object should be
- of the same type as *self*. Note that missing *i* or *j* in the slice
- expression are replaced by zero or ``sys.maxint``, respectively. If negative
- indexes are used in the slice, the length of the sequence is added to that
- index. If the instance does not implement the :meth:`__len__` method, an
- :exc:`AttributeError` is raised. No guarantee is made that indexes adjusted this
- way are not still negative. Indexes which are greater than the length of the
- sequence are not modified. If no :meth:`__getslice__` is found, a slice object
- is created instead, and passed to :meth:`__getitem__` instead.
+ Called to implement evaluation of ``self[i:j]``. The returned object should
+ be of the same type as *self*. Note that missing *i* or *j* in the slice
+ expression are replaced by zero or :attr:`sys.maxsize`, respectively. If
+ negative indexes are used in the slice, the length of the sequence is added
+ to that index. If the instance does not implement the :meth:`__len__` method,
+ an :exc:`AttributeError` is raised. No guarantee is made that indexes
+ adjusted this way are not still negative. Indexes which are greater than the
+ length of the sequence are not modified. If no :meth:`__getslice__` is found,
+ a slice object is created instead, and passed to :meth:`__getitem__` instead.
.. method:: object.__setslice__(self, i, j, sequence)