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30 changes: 15 additions & 15 deletions Doc/reference/datamodel.rst
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Expand Up @@ -3223,21 +3223,6 @@ through the object's keys; for sequences, it should iterate through the values.
.. versionadded:: 3.4


.. index:: pair: object; slice

.. note::

Slicing is done exclusively with the following three methods. A call like ::

a[1:2] = b

is translated to ::

a[slice(1, 2, None)] = b

and so forth. Missing slice items are always filled in with ``None``.


.. method:: object.__getitem__(self, subscript)

Called to implement *subscription*, that is, ``self[subscript]``.
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should raise an :exc:`LookupError` or one of its subclasses
(:exc:`IndexError` for sequences; :exc:`KeyError` for mappings).

.. index:: pair: object; slice

.. note::

Slicing is done exclusively with the following three methods.
A call like ::

a[1:2] = b

is translated to ::

a[slice(1, 2, None)] = b

and so forth. Missing slice items are always filled in with ``None``.

.. note::

The sequence iteration protocol (used, for example, in :keyword:`for`
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