Range Operation pre-PEP

[Ben Hutchings]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fredrik at pythonware.com> writes:
<snip> 
> maybe we should ask him: Ben, did you really mean that Python
> won't let you abuse lists and tuples?  or where you just describing
> a well-known best practice?
<snip>

I certainly didn't mean that Python won't let you 'abuse' them (I
wouldn't go so far as to say 'abuse', anyway).  I only meant that I
believed there were differences in intended usage that went beyond
mutability.

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