About generators

[Ben Finney]

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 06:30:10 GMT, Andrea Griffini wrote:
> I'm new to python and I really like what I've seen so far with just
> one exception; the absence of a nice syntax for ranges of integers.

I'm not sure if you're unaware of the range() builtin:

    for i in range(10):
        print i

Are you saying this isn't a "nice syntax"?  It seems quite
self-explanatory, and doesn't require new syntax.

What is it you don't like about range()?

> [I prefer] having "expr1 ... expr2" returning an iterator from expr1
> to expr2 (second limit included).

If this were to happen, I'd prefer two periods instead of three
(matching previous experience with Pascal and related languages).

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