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authorEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2011-05-23 06:10:26 +0300
committerEli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com>2011-05-23 06:10:26 +0300
commit8a9762f029dece5648224936c8e1b44b3b6928e2 (patch)
treea7a2be8de319040324040f830cfcefb4c866f71b
parentb75bf11c684279c6081ec76cd8fc4219c9a11553 (diff)
downloadcpython-8a9762f029dece5648224936c8e1b44b3b6928e2.tar.gz
Issue 12003: fixing error in xrange alternative sample
-rw-r--r--Doc/library/functions.rst2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/library/functions.rst b/Doc/library/functions.rst
index 4b63c9f70e..962a53d45e 100644
--- a/Doc/library/functions.rst
+++ b/Doc/library/functions.rst
@@ -1464,7 +1464,7 @@ available. They are listed here in alphabetical order.
also requires that the number of elements fit in a native C long. If a
larger range is needed, an alternate version can be crafted using the
:mod:`itertools` module: ``islice(count(start, step),
- (stop-start+step-1)//step)``.
+ (stop-start+step-1+2*(step<0))//step)``.
.. function:: zip([iterable, ...])