[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals

[Ka-Ping Yee]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Greg Wilson wrote:
> The problem with using ellipsis is that there's no obvious way to include
> a stride --- how do you hit every second (or n'th) element, rather than
> every element?

As explained in the examples i posted,

    1, 3 .. 20

could produce

    (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19)


-- ?!ng