[Python-Dev] Re: [Python-checkins] CVS: python/dist/src/Lib sre_constants.py (etc)

[Greg Ewing]

Fredrik Lundh <fredrik@effbot.org>:

> for _i in range(len(__all__)-1,-1,-1):

On a slightly wider topic, it might be nice to have
a clearer way of iterating backwards over a range.

How about a function such as

  revrange(n1, n2)

which would produce the same sequence of numbers
as range(n1, n2) but in the opposite order.
(Plus corresponding xrevrange() of course.)

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