bpo-37487: Fix PyList_GetItem index description. (pythonGH-14623)

terryjreedy · miss-islington · commit becde05b712e · 2019-07-06T21:40:55.000Z
0 is a legal index. (cherry picked from commit f8709e8) Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
diff --git a/Doc/c-api/list.rst b/Doc/c-api/list.rst
@@ -76,9 +76,9 @@ List Objects
 .. c:function:: PyObject* PyList_GetItem(PyObject *list, Py_ssize_t index)
 
    Return the object at position *index* in the list pointed to by *list*.  The
-   position must be positive, indexing from the end of the list is not
-   supported.  If *index* is out of bounds, return *NULL* and set an
-   :exc:`IndexError` exception.
+   position must be non-negative; indexing from the end of the list is not
+   supported.  If *index* is out of bounds (<0 or >=len(list)),
+   return *NULL* and set an :exc:`IndexError` exception.
 
    .. versionchanged:: 2.5
       This function used an :c:type:`int` for *index*. This might require
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-17-19-26.bpo-37487.QagfZ5.rst b/Misc/NEWS.d/next/Documentation/2019-07-06-17-19-26.bpo-37487.QagfZ5.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix PyList_GetItem index description to include 0.

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