text_combined: guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg sun apr 27 2008 407 alexander belopolsky wrote sat apr 26 2008 249 pm facundo batista wrote range definition words terms abcs range sized iterable current implementation sequence container support slicing idea support x range discussed last year 1 appears accepted implemented understand slicing support works 2 believe would make sense turn range sequence reasons 1 easy explain range sequence integers start stop excluding stop skipping step 2 fewer 2 3 incompatibilities 1 httpmailpythonorgpipermailpython30002007july009028html 2 httpbugspythonorgmsg65807 im 0 recent enhancements like indexing proposed repr enhancement reason im lukewarm dont expect much use extra functionality teachers want show students rangex z cast list cost extra functionality writing reviewing adding unittests documenting maintaining making sure works 64bit machines python book authors discuss addition extra baggage executable never needed think reasons compelling theres reason xrange object didnt extra baggage remember one goals py3k shrink language fit brain thread seems going opposite direction guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 195353 0700 python3000 range issues