On Sun, Apr 3, 2016, at 00:43, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > If you personally don't see any advantage in this, so be it, but you > might > not be aware of the history of (x)range: > > Guido in 2001: "Nobody uses this extra functionality, and its buggy, > let's > get rid of it." > > https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0260/
Several of those features apparently never did come back. The repeat count never did (you can't multiply ranges now), and it occurs to me that slicing a range that has a repeat count is intractable: (range(3)*2)[1:5] should yield 1, 2, 0, 1, which can't be represented as a range object. It also doesn't support comparison operations. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
