Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com>: > On Sun, Apr 3, 2016 at 6:44 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <ma...@pacujo.net> wrote: >> I don't have a problem with a list being a "reiterable." I only was >> surprised about range(), which I had thought to be a plain, >> down-to-earth iterator. There's barely any other practical use for a >> range, I believe. > > That's Blub's Paradox right there. There are lots of other uses for > range(), but you just haven't used them.
That's why I was looking for counterexamples in the standard library sources but couldn't really spot any (apart from a single reversed(range())). Maybe I wasn't looking carefully enough. As far as I can tell, range() is simply Python's way of implementing classical integral "for" loops. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
