guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg tue apr 8 2008 1145 pm anand balachandran pillai wrote still seems like bad thing break backward compatibility thats strong argument py3k hopefully well documented 30 release currently whats new page mention anything range type breaks backward compatibility news page 30 a4 say however range returns iterator rather list floats allowed xrange longer defined guess information added actually specify range returns iterator iterator new type different please submit doc patch guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 045047 0700 python3000 equality range objects