25 Jun
2001
25 Jun
'01
9:26 a.m.
With generators in the language, should xrange be deprecated?
Skip
No, but maybe xrange() should be changed to return an iterator. E.g. something like this: def xrange(start, stop, step): while start < stop: yield start start += stop but with the appropriate defaults, and reversal of the test if step < 0, and an error if step == 0, and type checks enforcing ints (or long ints!), and implemented in C. :-) Although xrange() objects currently support some sequence algebra, that is mostly bogus and I don't think anyone in their right mind uses it. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)