PEP 284, Integer for-loops

[David Eppstein]

In article <3c87d103.26130283 at news.laplaza.org>,
 mats at laplaza.org (Mats Wichmann) wrote:

> If you'e going on to teach Python, you'd tell 'em those can of course
> be combined.

I don't want to teach Python.  I want to teach other stuff.  Python is 
close to an ideal language for this purpose: easy to just start using 
without spending a lot of time teaching it, easy to express algorithms 
as actual debugged working code without all the overhead of C/C++/Java 
(the other logical choices of languages, that the students already 
know).  But there are a few warts in the design, where instead of just 
using Python I have to stop and explain some unnatural unintuitive 
syntax.  Multi-parameter range() is one of those warts.