iters on ints? (reducing the need for range/xrange)

Emile van Sebille emile at fenx.com
Thu Nov 8 17:43:55 EST 2001


<James_Althoff at i2.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.1005256814.9657.python-list at python.org...
>
> Now that the issue of transfinite cardinals has been fully resolved, isn't
> it time for yet another unpopular-and-non-pythonic suggestion?  I believe
> it is.

Are you going to suggest dropping the line ending colons?

>
> What if (in post-2.2) Python the tp_iter slot in the int type was defined
> to return an xrange-like iterator such that one could do the following:
>

oh.  ;-)

> for i in 10:
>     doSomething(i)
>

Sounds good.


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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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