PEP 276 Simple Iterator for ints

[David Eppstein]

In article <3BF43EA3.42A5A4B6 at ccvcorp.com>,
 Jeff Shannon <jeff at ccvcorp.com> wrote:

> > >>> for i in int[2:10:2]: print i,
> > 2 4 6 8
> >
> 
> This doesn't look too bad to me.  I'd go for it.

Why is int[2:10:2] an improvement over range(2,10,2)?

They have the same number of words and the same argument values with the 
same amount of punctuation, the only difference to me is that int[2:10:2] 
is in a much less familiar syntax.
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/