PEP 276 Simple Iterator for ints (fwd)

[Greg Ewing]

James_Althoff at i2.com wrote:
> 
> I would have guessed, though, that given the current direction of Python
> vis-a-vis iterators that
> 
>     for 0 <= x < 5:
> 
> would have to mean something like "0 <= x < 5" is special syntax built into
> the for-loop statement that generates an iterator that enumerates the
> integers 0,1,2,3,4.

Yes.

> It happens to look just like an expression which
> *outside* the context of a for-loop evaluates to 0 or 1 instead of
> producing an iterator (as was pointed out previously by Peter Hansen).

This is also true of the "i in seq" part of "for i in seq",
so nothing unprecedented would be going on in that respect.

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