PEP 276 -- What else could iter(5) mean?

[Justin Sheehy]

Bernhard Herzog <bh at intevation.de> writes:

> Do we really want all of these new behaviors?

No.  Please, no.

I still don't see what this proposal provides in terms of a real gain
in order to offset the obvious potential for ugliness, mistakes, and
the appearance of ambiguity.

Not having to type "range" or "xrange" doesn't count as a real gain.

The PEP describes having to use range in this context as a wart, but I
don't remember it ever being referred to as such before this PEP.

-Justin