<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know why a step argument was left off of count? There must > be something that I am missing in why this is the case. For example, I > read that the negative start and step were left off of islice because > iterables can be of "infinite length" so you won't know apriori where > the end is. But how would you be using count in a way that *couldn't* > use a step argument?
I think it's a reasonable extra-feature request for Python 2.5 -- you should post it as such to sourceforge. Alex -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
