An implementation of a variation on "for 1 <= i <= 10" [was Re: PEP 276 Simple Iterator for ints (fwd)]

[David Eppstein]

In article <slrna105a1.4mg.QnickQm at h00104b6bfa23.ne.mediaone.net>,
 QnickQm at alum.mit.edu (Nick Mathewson) wrote:

> Here's some code that implements almost this behavior.  Now you can type:
> 
> for i in 1 <= ints <= 10:
>    print i

Cool.

It looks like you haven't added the logic yet to make
    for i in x < ints <= y
work correctly when x and y are not known to be integers,
but range() doesn't take nonintegers either
(according to the Python 2.1 Library Reference, anyway).
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/