[Python-3000] range() issues

[Benjamin Peterson]

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>  >  >  But I didn't find a rationale. I'm sure it was PBP though.
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>  >  What's PBP? (A search only turns up a bicycle race. :))
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>  Practicality Beats Purity, from the zen of Python

It's practical to have a builtin function silently "lie" about the
length of a sequence? I don't see how that makes anybody's life much
easier.

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>  --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson