iters on ints? (reducing the need for range/xrange)

[Rainer Deyke]

<James_Althoff at i2.com> wrote in message
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>
> Now that the issue of transfinite cardinals has been fully resolved, isn't
> it time for yet another unpopular-and-non-pythonic suggestion?  I believe
> it is.
>
> What if (in post-2.2) Python the tp_iter slot in the int type was defined
> to return an xrange-like iterator such that one could do the following:
>
> for i in 10:
>     doSomething(i)

I like it.  I guess that just goes to show how non-Pythonic I am.

Seriously, I don't see how this is worse or less Pythonic than, say, 'for
line in file'.


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