Thought on PEP 204 and 276

[holger krekel]

Steve Horne wrote:
> 
> I can't help being disappointed that PEP 204 was rejected. To me,
> 
>   for i in [0:10] :
> 
> is much more intuitive than the PEP 276 version
> 
>   for i in 10 :

I must say, i dislike both :-)

The reasoning in PEP 276 is IMO somewhat superseded by PEP279 (enumerate).
For example in PEP276 this code is given:

       for rowcount in range(table.getRowCount()):
           print table.getValueAt(rowcount, 0)

where 

       for rowcount in table.getRowCount():
           print table.getValueAt(rowcount,0)

would be the PEP-solution. With enumerate you have

       for i,item in table:
           # use item
           table.setValueAt(i, ***)

in many cases (where table is iterable that is).
I think that 'for i in 10:' is hardly ever used literally.
By far the most common case is:

       for i in xrange(len(somelist)):
            item=somelist[i]
            # use it
            somelist[i]=newvalue

which becomes:

       for i,item in enumerate(somelist):
            # use item
            somelist[i]=newvalue

So i don't see many applications for PEP276 anymore.

regards,

    holger