Why I think range is a wart.

[Max M]

ruud de rooij wrote:

> perhaps lists should support .keys() and .items() for those operations
> (analogous to dictionaries).

Yes if that doesn't conflict with anything it would be a very nice way 
to solve 99% of the cases where I typically use the range function:

theList = ['item1', 'item2', 'item3']
subList = ['item4', 'item5', 'item6']
for i, item in theList.items():
     print item, sublist[i]

But it would not help much in list comprehensions unless they are rewritten:

newList = [(theList[i], sublist[i]) for i in range(len(theList))]

regards Max M