Status of PEP's?

[Greg Ewing]

James_Althoff at i2.com wrote:
> 
> [Andy Gimblett]
> > This just came to me:
> >
> > for index in indices(items):
> >     pass
> >
> > or maybe better yet:
> >
> > for index in items.indices():
> >     pass
> 
> Warning: the latter could get you into trouble with the "methods are
> overrated" crowd <wink>.

It would also preclude doing smart things like
using the __len__ of an object if there wasn't
a more specific method available.

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