Message 65798 - Python tracker

Message65798

Author	belopolsky
Recipients	belopolsky, mark.dickinson
Date	2008-04-25.17:32:06
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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote: .. > I don't much like this aspect of the change: there are uses for > > for i in range(ridiculously_large_number): For this application, I would use "for i in itertools.count():" instead. The only caveat is that while count() lets you specify the start, it does not provide for a step. If that is a problem, I would rather add step to count().

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On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:55 PM, Mark Dickinson <report@bugs.python.org> wrote:
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>  I don't much like this aspect of the change:   there are uses for
>
>  for i in range(ridiculously_large_number):

For this application, I would use "for i in itertools.count():"
instead.  The only caveat is that while count() lets you specify the
start, it does not provide for a step.   If that is a problem, I would
rather add step to count().

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Date	User	Action	Args
2008-04-25 17:32:08	belopolsky	set	spambayes_score: 0.280672 -> 0.28067243 recipients: + belopolsky, mark.dickinson
2008-04-25 17:32:07	belopolsky	link	issue2690 messages
2008-04-25 17:32:06	belopolsky	create