Comment on PEP-0322: Reverse Iteration Methods

[Stephen Horne]

On Sat, 27 Sep 2003 00:08:22 -0700, David Eppstein
<eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:

>Speaking of which: str, int, etc., used to be functions, but they got 
>changed to be the initializers of types having those names.  Why is 
>xrange still a function rather than the initializer of the xrange type?

"""
Python 2.3 (#46, Jul 29 2003, 18:54:32) [MSC v.1200 32 bit (Intel)] on
win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> xrange
<type 'xrange'>
"""

Looks like a type rather than a function to me, and the help appears
to be very good. Enumerate also seems to be a type with an
initialiser.

Are you using an earlier version?


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Steve Horne

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