PEP 276 Simple Iterator for ints

[David Eppstein]

In article <mailman.1005767000.29645.python-list at python.org>,
 James_Althoff at i2.com wrote:

> [Tim Hochberg]
> >So you can use it in your own class if you want. In particular, one could
> >make
> >
> >int[1,3,...,53] act like range(1,53,2) if one wanted.

I missed this the first time it came around, but here is another argument 
why the current range syntax is not good: it confused Tim.
What you want is for int[1,3,...,53] to act like range(1,54,2) or 
range(1,55,2) -- the final element of the range should be 53 not 51.
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
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