"Antoon Pardon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > but nobody seems to have > a problem with range(n) where n suddenly is the second parameter and > we use the default for the first.
Actually, I consider the unique calling pattern for x/range to be something of a wart. Learning this inconsistency was at least a minor problem. It is a rather extreme example of typing laziness beats purity. Given that enumerate() eliminate many uses of range(), it might be worth considering requiring the start param. range(0,n) only takes two more keystrokes. Better maybe to shorten range to rng to get them back ;-) Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
