PEP 284, Integer for-loops

[phil hunt]

On Fri, 08 Mar 2002 08:54:15 -0800, David Eppstein <eppstein at ics.uci.edu> wrote:
>In article <slrna8h5ev.ijc.philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk>,
> philh at comuno.freeserve.co.uk (phil hunt) wrote:
>
>> Thev reasdon i don't like it is that the syntax already has a 
>> meaning: to compare the magnitude of values. Now you are proposing 
>> another, totally different, meaning.
>
>How is that unlike the difference in meaning between "in" in expressions 
>and "in" in for-loops?

I never said I particularly liked that, either.

But it is a well-established part of the python language.

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