PEP 260: simplify xrange()

[Roman Suzi]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, D-Man wrote:

>On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 10:47:28PM +0400, Roman Suzi wrote:
>|
>| What about str(x)?
>
>It's not needed :
>
>>>> class Example:
>...     def __repr__( self ) : return "Hello World"
>...
>>>> str( Example() )
>'Hello World'

Thanks, I've not known this.

>>>>
>
>I have no problems with the PEP and I think that the reduced code size
>is a good thing.

It is, of course.
But after PEP 260 xrange is sequence no more.

And also I think  "x in xrange(...)" and
"x not in xrange(...)" should not be dropped,
because it is very near to

for x in xrange(...)

and has interesting use as in:

if n in xrange(1, 101, 2): # odd number from [1, 100]
  ...


Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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