Daniel Urban <urban.dani+py at gmail.com> added the comment: I see. Thanks for the explanation. If indeed this is the expected behaviour (as it seems), then I suggest clarifying the documentation. I think it would be good to mention that the returned values are for range(), and not for creating another slice object. ---------- assignee: -> docs at python components: +Documentation -Interpreter Core nosy: +docs at python _______________________________________ Python tracker <report at bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue11842> _______________________________________