Status of PEP's?
David Eppstein
eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Fri Mar 1 20:08:46 EST 2002
In article <mailman.1015027510.14026.python-list at python.org>,
James_Althoff at i2.com wrote:
> I agree as I just remembered another issue that came up concerning the
> "for-relational" suggestion. Namely, that the "for-relational" syntax
> doesn't handle step values for intervals. So even though there would be
> new syntax, we would still need to use range/xrange in cases requiring a
> step value not equal to 1 or -1.
True, it doesn't handle step values, unless you count syntax like
[2*x for start <= x < end]. Neither does PEP 276, of course.
Nobody is proposing to eliminate range/xrange, I think.
I will see if I can find some time to work on a PEP.
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David Eppstein UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/
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