pydata/pandas — pull request #6531 by immerrr (2014-03-03 17:04:55+00:00)
Title: BUG/TST: fix several issues with slice bound checking code

This patch removes more of what's left after removing pandas-specific customizations to slice indexing.

BUG/TST: `obj.iloc[:,-4:-10]` should return empty slice (because slice.step > 0 and slice.start > slice.stop)
There's no way to describe this by setting stop to a value in `[0; len]` interval, it should remain negative (see [this ticket in python bugtracker](http://bugs.python.org/issue11842)]. Proposed fix to this issue is to remove the custom logic altogether. A side-effect of that is correct handling of negative steps in presence of out-of-bounds slices, e.g. `obj.iloc[:,10:4:-1]` would've incorrectly returned empty slice.

BUG: fix exception raised by `Series([1,2,3]).iloc[10:]`.
After I've cleaned up suspicious code that handled empty-sequence keys in #6440, this piece of code started causing trouble:

```python
if start >= l:
return self._getitem_axis(tuple(),axis=axis)
```

CLN: #6299 & #6443 rendered `core.indexing._check_slice_bounds` function useless and it's now gone. Next step would be to drop unused `raise_on_error` parameter in slice-related functions.

Not sure, how do I put down all these relations into changelog, advice on that is welcome.