[Python-Dev] [PEP204] Range Literals

[Paul Prescod]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> 
> ..
> 
> It should be sweet and simple.  Make it return a list, just like
> range().  The whole point is that an optimizer can recognize that you
> are doing "for i in [0:10]: ...", and use a generator anyway -- but
> that's a thing for later to implement.

Why disallow this:

fives=[0:maxint:5]

As Fred points out, we've already got the underlying object
implementation in the src!

MAL also pointed out that immutable objects (like xranges) can be safely
precomputed and reused.

Finally, whatever the answer is, it should probably be the same as list
comprehensions.

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