2008/5/14 Ethan Furman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ben Finney wrote: > > > Subject: Re: built in list generator? > > From: Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:43:43 +1000 > > To: python-list@python.org > > To: python-list@python.org > > Newsgroups: comp.lang.python > > "Diez B. Roggisch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > globalrev schrieb: > > > if i want a list with all numbers between x and y is there a way to > do this with an inbult function. > > i mean i can always construct a function to do this but is there > soemthing like: > > nbrs = list(range(50,100, 2)) > > range *does* that. use xrange if all you want is to iterate. > > Until Python 3.0, where 'range' returns an iterable. > > Is there a thread somewhere of the discussion for this change? I'm > presuming range is used almost exclusively in loops where a change in the > return type would have no negative effect. > --
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-April/034534.html > Ethan > > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Wbr, Andrii Mishkovskyi. He's got a heart of a little child, and he keeps it in a jar on his desk. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
