PEP 234: Iterators

[Just van Rossum]

Roman Suzi wrote:

> >Well, yes.  The whole point of this exercise is that xrange() will be
> >essentially deprecated in 2.2.  There's no more need to create any new
> 
> 8-[ xrange is about to be excluded from Python? Can't it just be
> an alternative name of the iterator, doing same thing?

Could be done, for most usages, but it's not completely compatible: the xrange
object supports random access, whereas an iterator does not.

Just