Status of PEP's?

Jeff Shannon jeff at ccvcorp.com
Mon Mar 4 14:24:53 EST 2002


James_Althoff at i2.com wrote:

> I was thinking in a more general sense: I would like to create an iterator
> with start, end, and step values and pass it into a function without first
> actualizing it as a list (like one would have to do using for+relational in
> conjunction with list comp.s).  And use the same construct in for-loops,
> list comp.s, etc.  (For those just tuning in: I realize that I can create a
> class for this -- actually, I already have.  I'm refering to proposals for
> new idioms in Python for iterating intervals of integers.)

Um...  isn't this exactly what xrange() does?  Or am I missing something again?

Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International





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