I've very new to python, and am currently toying with pythonD. Could someone please explain the rationale behind python designers' thinking in deciding the function "range(1,12)" should return the sequence 1 to 11 rather than the more intuitively-useful 1 to 12??
After downloading the substantial distribution .zip file, I'm intrigued to find it includes 3 files of identical size and creation date, differing apparently only in name (python, python2.4 and python24.exe) and each of exactly 2,597,888 bytes. What possible purpose could be served by such triplication that couldn't more efficiently be done by other means? Naive but curious minds wish to know! -- John Savage (my news address is not valid for email) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
