New PEP (281): Loop Counter Iteration with range and xrange

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <slrna6fu1v.goj.mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no>,
Magnus Lie Hetland <mlh at vier.idi.ntnu.no> wrote:
>
>I've submitted a draft PEP describing the idea of letting range and
>xrange accept sequences (or possibly, for xrange, any iterable) and
>return/yield one index per element. It's closely related to PEP 212,
>but instead of proposing new functions/syntax, it proposes extending
>the capabilities of existing functions.

Have to say that I really don't like this suggestion as proposed.  IMO,
range() with a sequence should permit only one argument; at the very
least, if more than one argument is permitted, the second and third
arguments should be restricted to integers.
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