#3171: document that *slice are removed in 3k.
diff --git a/Doc/library/operator.rst b/Doc/library/operator.rst
index 4921898..2ab54db 100644
--- a/Doc/library/operator.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/operator.rst
@@ -240,6 +240,10 @@
Delete the slice of *a* from index *b* to index *c-1*.
+ .. deprecated:: 2.6
+ This function is removed in Python 3.x. Use :func:`delitem` with a slice
+ index.
+
.. function:: getitem(a, b)
__getitem__(a, b)
@@ -252,6 +256,10 @@
Return the slice of *a* from index *b* to index *c-1*.
+ .. deprecated:: 2.6
+ This function is removed in Python 3.x. Use :func:`getitem` with a slice
+ index.
+
.. function:: indexOf(a, b)
@@ -283,6 +291,11 @@
Set the slice of *a* from index *b* to index *c-1* to the sequence *v*.
+ .. deprecated:: 2.6
+ This function is removed in Python 3.x. Use :func:`setitem` with a slice
+ index.
+
+
Many operations have an "in-place" version. The following functions provide a
more primitive access to in-place operators than the usual syntax does; for
example, the :term:`statement` ``x += y`` is equivalent to