PEP 260: simplify xrange()

[D-Man]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2001 at 11:51:12PM +0400, Roman Suzi wrote:
| 
| 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]
|   ...

Cute, but how about (for this particular example)

if 1 <= n <= 101 and n % 2 == 1 :
    ...

or

def odd_in_range( n , lower , upper :
    return 1 <= n <= 101 and n % 2 == 1

if odd_in_range( n , 1 , 101 )


In fact, prior to the PEP, I didn't know that xrange() could be used
anywhere except a for loop.  I hadn't tried, nor had I read the docs
;-).

-D