Actually, a more reasonable solution would be to have range handle keyword arguments and map "range(start=x)" to "count(x)".  Or, perhaps more simply, "range(x, None)" (so that no keyword arguments are needed).

2014-05-15 13:04 GMT-07:00 Ram Rachum <ram.r...@gmail.com>:

Now that I think about it, I would ideally want `itertools.count` to be deprecated in favor of `range(float('inf'))`, but I know that would never happen.

On Thursday, May 15, 2014 11:02:56 PM UTC+3, Ram Rachum wrote:

I suggest exposing `itertools.count.start` and implementing `itertools.count.__eq__` based on it. This'll provide the same benefits that `range` got by exposing `range.start` and allowing `range.__eq__`.

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