[Python-ideas] Pass a function as the argument "step" of range()

[Pierre Quentel]

2015-07-03 5:20 GMT+02:00 Andrew Barnert <abarnert at yahoo.com>:

> On Jul 2, 2015, at 03:17, Pierre Quentel <pierre.quentel at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 2015-07-02 9:32 GMT+02:00 Andrew Barnert via Python-ideas <
> python-ideas at python.org>:
>
>> LOn Jul 2, 2015, at 00:12, Nathaniel Smith
>> You can already do this with accumulate; you just have to write lambda x,
>> _: x*2.
>>
>> Of course it doesn't include the built-in bounds, but I don't think you'd
>> want that anyway. With accumulate, you can bound on the domain by passing
>> range instead of count for the input, bound on the range with takewhile, or
>> generate an infinite iterator, or anything else you think might be useful.
>>
>> Or one more of the various combinations of things you can trivially build
>> out of these pieces might be useful as a recipe ("irange"?) and/or in the
>> third-party more-iterools.
>>
>>
> I am not saying that you can't find other ways to get the same result,
> just that using a function (usually a lambda) is easier to code and to
> understand.
>
>
> I don't understand how using a function is easier to code and understand
> than using a function. Or how passing it to range is any simpler than
> passing it to accumulate, or to a recipe function built on top of
> accumulate.
>

With the proposed addition to raise, the list of powers of 2 lower than 100
would be :

list(range(1, 100, lambda x:x*2))

How do you code the same with accumulate ? I tried, but I'm stuck with
"stop when the element is >= 100"
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