PEP 276 -- What else could iter(5) mean?

[Bengt Richter]

On 3 Mar 2002 12:50:24 GMT, scarblac at pino.selwerd.nl (Remco Gerlich) wrote:

>Cromwell, Jeremy <jcromwell at ciena.com> wrote in comp.lang.python:
>> If python was to allow "for i in 5:", is there any other meaning that would
>> be appropriate besides the one detailed in PEP 276?
>
>Yes.
>
>It should give an error - 5 is not a sequence, so 'i in 5' is nonsense.
>
No, it's not nonsense. 'i in 5' is a probability, so

    for i in 5:
        do_this()

should have an i/5.0 chance of executing do_this().

;-))