John Savage wrote: > 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?? Essentially, it has to do with the decision to have range(5) mean the list [0, 1, 2, 3, 4] (which is five elements long). Any choice will please some and offend others; this one in Python has no chance of changing.
> 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? You obviously know what and where PythonD came from, but we don't. -- -Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
