Alexander Schmolck a.schmolck at gmx.net
Fri Feb 21 09:01:58 EST 2003

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Alex Martelli <aleax at aleax.it> writes:
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> > I think xrange, etc. are already a convention for the closest thing
> > Python has traditionally had to iterators.  Maybe those functions
> > should just be updated to make ordinary iterators.
> 
> Not without breaking, e.g., xrange(23, 17923, 12)[15] -- which now
> has a perfectly good result of 203 and would break if xrange
> returned an iterator (or any other non-indexable object).

It could always return and indexable iterator.

alex

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