Re: [Python-ideas] Where did we go wrong with negative stride?

On 27/10/2013 5:04pm, Guido van Rossum wrote:

Are we stuck with this forever? If we want to fix this in Python 4 we'd have to start deprecating negative stride with non-empty lower/upper bounds now. And we'd have to start deprecating negative step for range() altogether, recommending reversed(range(lower, upper)) instead.

Or recommend using None?

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-- Richard