Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For finite sequences, your proposal adds nothing new to existing > solutions like range and xrange.
Oh come on, [5,4,..0] is much easier to read than range(5,-1,-1). > The only added feature this proposal > introduces is infinite iterators, and they aren't particularly hard to > make: > > def arithmetic_sequence(start, step=1): > yield start > while 1: > start += step > yield start Well, that would be itertools.count(start, step) but in general a simple expression is nicer than 5 lines of code. > If your proposal included support for ranges of characters, I'd be more > interested. There's something to be said for that. Should ['a'..'z'] be a list or a string? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
