[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Greg Ewing wrote:
> 
> Am I right in thinking that the main motivation here is
> to clean up the "for i in range(len(a))" idiom? If so,
> what's wrong with a built-in:
> 
>   def indices(a):
>     return range(len(a))

As far as I know adding a builtin indices() has been
rejected as an idea.

Peter
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