[Python-Dev] PEP 276 (simple iterator for ints)
Greg Ewing
greg at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed Jun 30 22:17:15 EDT 2004
"Chermside, Michael" <mchermside at ingdirect.com>:
> >>> for i in len(myList):
> ... doSomethingWithIndexes(i)
>
> is simple and elegant.
IMO it would be clearer, and equally elegant, to write
this as something like
for i in indices(myList):
...
which is easily accomplished with the aid of a suitable
definition for indices(). No language changes needed.
I suspect most people other than number theorists would
find the concept of a set of integers being contained
in another integer quite wierd.
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