From e15d0dea071d37b44ac3ba55a5cc31af315e7ef4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org>
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 16:42:30 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Slice and ellipses interface

---
 Include/sliceobject.h | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 40 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Include/sliceobject.h

diff --git a/Include/sliceobject.h b/Include/sliceobject.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..ac7cd13cbb1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Include/sliceobject.h
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+#ifndef Py_SLICEOBJECT_H
+#define Py_SLICEOBJECT_H
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+/* The unique ellipses object "..." */
+
+extern DL_IMPORT(PyObject) _Py_EllipsesObject; /* Don't use this directly */
+
+#define Py_Ellipses (&_Py_EllipsesObject)
+
+
+/* Slice object interface */
+
+/*
+
+A slice object containing start, stop, and step data members (the
+names are from range).  After much talk with Guido, it was decided to
+let these be any arbitrary python type. 
+*/
+
+typedef struct {
+	PyObject_HEAD
+	PyObject *start, *stop, *step;
+} PySliceObject;
+
+extern DL_IMPORT(PyTypeObject) PySlice_Type;
+
+#define PySlice_Check(op) ((op)->ob_type == &PySlice_Type)
+
+PyObject *PySlice_New Py_PROTO((
+	PyObject* start, PyObject* stop, PyObject* step));
+int PySlice_GetIndices Py_PROTO((
+	PySliceObject *r, int length, int *start, int *stop, int *step));
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+#endif /* !Py_SLICEOBJECT_H */