[issue1766304] improve xrange.__contains__

Antoine Pitrou report at bugs.python.org
Wed Jun 2 20:07:03 CEST 2010


Antoine Pitrou <pitrou at free.fr> added the comment:

> > If so, I can have the patch ready by Friday 14:00 GMT, but if nobody will have time to review
> > (and possibly commit) in time for RC1 I guess I'll take my time with this.
> 
> I'll review your patch, but why are you so eager to get this into 2.7?
>  You realize that for integer x, x in xrange(a, b) is just another way
> to spell a <= x < b.  What is your use case?

I really think this shouldn't go into 2.7.  We certainly have better
things to do than potentially break something for an almost useless
non-feature.

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