Arithmetic sequences in Python

[Steven Bethard]

Alex Martelli wrote:
> Tom Anderson <twic at urchin.earth.li> wrote:
>> Sounds good. More generally, i'd be more than happy to get rid of list
>> comprehensions, letting people use list(genexp) instead. That would 
>> obviously be a Py3k thing, though.
> 
> I fully agree, but the BDFL has already (tentatively, I hope) Pronounced
> that the [...] form will stay in Py3K as syntax sugar for list(...).

Do you have a link for that?  I hadn't seen the pronouncement, and 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Python3%2e0 still lists that as an open issue.

 > I find that to be a truly hateful prospect

I'm not sure I find it truly hateful, but definitely unnecessary. 
TOOWTDI and all...

STeVe