[Python-3000] range() issues

[Guido van Rossum]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 8:22 PM, Alexander Belopolsky
<alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 10:36 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>  ..
>  >  There are good reasons for having range() return an Iterable and not
>  >  an Iterator;
>
>  What would you say to an idea of exposing rangeiter in itertools - say
>  itertools.irange(..) function that returns an iterator?

You're kidding right? If you *want* the iterator, what's wrong with
iter(range(N))? It's even less characters than itertools.irange(N).
:-)

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