PEP 276 Simple Iterator for ints (fwd)

[Greg Ewing]

James_Althoff at i2.com wrote:
> 
> Since this looks like a suggestion for replacing xrange in the general
> case, did you have any thoughts on how one might specify a step value?

Not any particularly good ones. Maybe

   for 0 <= i/3 < 10:

to give 0, 3, 6, 9. But that's probably
a bit too perverse!

I'm inclined to think that if you really
want steps other than 1, you generate them
yourself from an index which is stepped by
1. 

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