Grant Edwards wrote: > > It's unclear what you're referring to as "the range".
The notion of something describing a range of values which can be expanded to a list or, of relevance here, whose boundaries can be tested efficiently. > Perhaps you're thinking of a slice? Somethign like > > if (0:10000).contains(x): Did you mean...? (0:10000) # SyntaxError slice(0, 10000).contains(x) # AttributeError 3 in slice(0, 10000) # TypeError Something like this might suffice if slice could have a __contains__ method or if people thought of slices as natural things to test against. Perhaps we could ask the original questioner why they chose to use range in such a way - it might indicate a background in languages which encourage the construction of ranges and their use in comparisons - although being told to RTFM may have scared them off. Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
