PEP 284, Integer for-loops

[Steve Lamb]

On Wed, 06 Mar 2002 16:57:03 -0800, David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu>
wrote:
> I think you have made my point for me, that range is hard to use 
> correctly.  Did you try running range(n-1,0)?  What list did it give you?

>>> range(-10,0)
>>> [-10, -9, -8, -7, -6, -5, -4, -3, -2, -1]

    And?  How does this prove your point other than some minor nit I'm sure
you're going to pick?  Point stands, there are other ways of doing it.

    While I've got your attention, let me ask you this.  In your notation how
would you do the following?

for x in range(n-1,-1,-2):

    That, unlike the allusion you made above, is not a nit.  

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