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[Aahz Maruch]

In article <20000222225522.A5923 at stopcontact.palga.uucp>,
Gerrit Holl  <gerrit at nl.linux.org> wrote:
><quote name="Aahz Maruch" date="951249670">
>>
>> Hmmm?  What makes you say that range() is possible in pure Python and
>> xrange() is not?  (I think the latter requires a class with __getitem__
>> but is otherwise doable.)
>
>xrange returns an XRangeType; can I return that from a Python function?

I agree that you probably cannot return an XRangeType, but I think you
can mimic the xrange() behavior with a class.
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