On Sat, Jul 1, 2017 at 1:25 PM, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote: > On 2017-07-01 03:12, Stefan Ram wrote: >> >> Terry Reedy <tjre...@udel.edu> writes: >>> >>> range is a class, not a function in the strict sense. >> >> >> »the built-in function range() returns an iterator of integers« >> >> The Python Language Reference, Release 3.6.0, 8.3 The for statement >> > Python 3.6.1 (v3.6.1:69c0db5, Mar 21 2017, 18:41:36) [MSC v.1900 64 bit > (AMD64)] on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> range > <class 'range'> > > I think it's a holdover from Python 2: > > Python 2.7.10 (default, May 23 2015, 09:44:00) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] > on win32 > Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>>> range > <built-in function range> >>>> xrange > <type 'xrange'>
I think you're right. It's no longer correct. Let's fix it. https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/2523 ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
