On Oct 24, 5:44 pm, Michal Bozon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > many Python newcomers are confused why > range(10), does not include 10.
How can they be confused? Does base 10 have a digit ten? Does base 2 have a digit two? Does base 16 have a digit sixteen? Haven't you stopped counting on your fingers when you leave grade school? > > If there was a proposal for the new > syntax for ranges, which is known > e.g. from Pascal or Ruby... > > >>> [0..10] > > [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10] > > ...is there a chance to be approved ? "These go to 11." > > We have had a short discussion on it > at the irc, I hope that the fact > that nobody agreed it is a good idea > was just an accident :) Wait a minute...comp.lang.python. I must have accidentally gotten into the wrong newsgroup. > > -m. > > PS: > to dream further.. > > >>> (0..10) > > <generator object at 0xb7618dac> > > or > > >>> (0..10) > > (0..10) > > or > > >>> (0..10) > > range(0, 11) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
