Python 3: range objects cannot be sliced
Fuzzyman
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Sun Jan 25 19:20:47 EST 2009
On Jan 25, 2:28 pm, Alan G Isaac <alan.is... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/16/2009 3:13 PM Alan G Isaac apparently wrote:
> > It is documented:
> >http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-str-b...
>
> But then again, the opposite is also documented,
> since `range` is a sequence type. Quoting:
>
> Sequences also support slicing ...
>
> Some sequences also support “extended slicing”
>
> Is this a documentation bug, or a bug in `range`?
> (I'd think the latter.)
>
> Cheers,
> Alan Isaac
Where does the documentation say that range objects are sequences?
They're iterables.
Michael Foord
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