On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 11:51 AM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: >> Aside: >> >> I'm astonished to see that range objects have a count method! What's the >> purpose of that? Any value's count will either be 0 or 1, and a more >> appropriate test would be `value in range`: >> >> >>> 17 in range(2, 30, 3) # like r.count(17) => 1 >> True >> >>> 18 in range(2, 30, 3) # like r.count(18) => 0 >> False >> > In Python 2, range returns a list, and lists have a .count method. > Could that be the reason?
Python 2 xrange objects do not have a .count method. Python 3 range objects do have a .count method. The addition is curious, to say the least. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
