nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom anand balachandran pillai wrote still seems like bad thing break backward compatibility however really provide usecase apart benjamin said teaching common usecase equate ranges code bad coding anyway 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 thats actually wrong xrange objects py3ks range objects arent iterators theyre iterables dont provide next__next__ method cheers nick nick coghlan uytankmfgmailcom brisbane australia httpwwwboredomandlazinessorg _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 212757 1000 python3000 equality range objects