[Python-3000] optimizing [x]range

[Johan Dahlin]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
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>
>  Were you drunk at the time? :-)
No, I just remember that I made that mistake several times.

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> > It seems to be used quite widely already;
> >
> > 
http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=+%5E.*if%5Cs%2B.*%5Cs%2Bin%5Cs%2Brange%5C(.*%24&start=10&sa=N
> >
>
>  Sorry, 50 hits is not "quite widely".

Not everything is known to google's code search. I'm just saying that 
there's code
out there that uses this syntax.

>
>  Did you find *any* examples using a step > 1?

No, I didn't. I'm not arguing for that use case either, I'm mainly 
interested
in the use case where step == 1.

Johan