[Python-Dev] range objects in 3.x

[Fernando Perez]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 11:36:21 +1300, Greg Ewing wrote:


>> I do hope, though, that the chosen name is *not*:
>> 
>> - 'interval'
>> 
>> - 'interpolate' or similar
> 
> Would 'subdivide' be acceptable?

I'm not great at finding names, and I don't totally love it, but I 
certainly don't see any problems with it.  It is, after all, a subdivision 
of an interval :)

I think 'grid' has been mentioned, and I think it's reasonable, even 
though most people probably associate the word with a two-dimensional 
object.  But grids can have any desired dimensionality.

Now, in fact, numpy has a slightly demented (but extremely useful) ogrid 
object:

In [7]: ogrid[0:10:3]
Out[7]: array([0, 3, 6, 9])

In [8]: ogrid[0:10:3j]
Out[8]: array([  0.,   5.,  10.])

Yup, that's a complex slice :)

So if python named the builtin 'grid', I think it would go well with 
existing numpy habits.

Cheers,

f