range syntax

[Antoon Pardon]

On 2006-11-10, Roberto Bonvallet <Roberto.Bonvallet at cern.ch> wrote:
> Colin J. Williams wrote:
>> One of the little irritants of Python is that the range syntax is rather 
>> long-winded:
>> [Dbg]>>> range(3, 20, 6)
>> [3, 9, 15]
>> [Dbg]>>>
>> It would be nice if one could have something like 3:20:6.
>
> In that case, how would the parser know which colon terminates the
> 'for' in the following example:
>
>     for i in 2:3:4:
> 	...

By the programmer using parenthesis. Like

  for i in (2:3):
     ...


Just as you are supposed to use parthesis if you
want a tuple as a function argument although normally
a comma is enough to form a tuple.

-- 
Antoon Pardon