Why I think range is a wart.

[Quinn Dunkan]

On 13 Mar 2002 11:34:55 -0500, ruud de rooij <*@spam.ruud.org> wrote:
>perhaps lists should support .keys() and .items() for those operations
>(analogous to dictionaries).

This would also make writing polymorphic code easier.  I sometimes write
methods that work on both dicts and lists and find myself doing stuff like

if hasatttr(o, 'keys'):
    ks = o.keys()
else:
    ks = range(len(o))