Range Operation pre-PEP

[Walter Moreira]

On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 09:52:46AM -0600, Bjorn Pettersen wrote:
> If all we want to do is get rid of 
> 
>   for i in range(len(seq)):
> 	...
> 
> why not overload range so it can take a sequence directly:
> 
>   for i in range(seq):
>       ...

Isn't more pythonic the recipe (i think it is from Alex):

   for i, a in Indexed(seq):
       ...

where indexed is just:

   class Indexed:
       def __init__(self, seq):
           self.seq = seq
       def __getitem__(self, i):
           return i, self.seq[i]

? Do we really need syntatic changes (..) and semantic changes also? Doesn't
things like '..' make the language more difficult to learn for begginners? 

The reference manual must be bigger and bigger with each addition of this
kind. Other changes, like the elimination of the type/class differences make
the manual smaller. I think these are the things to be focused on.

Regards:
Walter

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