From f5b1712de622b286ced86239cf6489635b5d6774 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: kovan <xaum.io@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2026 21:31:43 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] gh-137960: Add note about extended slicing in tutorial

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
index deabac5253051c..e7e7a0f2b35a1d 100644
--- a/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
+++ b/Doc/tutorial/introduction.rst
@@ -333,6 +333,10 @@ slicing::
    >>> word[42:]
    ''
 
+Some sequences also support extended slicing with a third "step" parameter:
+``s[i:j:k]``.  See :ref:`Common Sequence Operations <typesseq-common>` for
+details.
+
 Python strings cannot be changed --- they are :term:`immutable`.
 Therefore, assigning to an indexed position in the string results in an error::