[Python-3000] range() issues

[Guido van Rossum]

As I said before, apparently it is practical in the Java world.

On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Benjamin Peterson
<musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
>  >  >  >  But I didn't find a rationale. I'm sure it was PBP though.
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>  >  >  What's PBP? (A search only turns up a bicycle race. :))
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>  >  Practicality Beats Purity, from the zen of Python
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>  It's practical to have a builtin function silently "lie" about the
>  length of a sequence? I don't see how that makes anybody's life much
>  easier.
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>  >  --
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> >  --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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>  --
>  Cheers,
>  Benjamin Peterson
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