Status of PEP's?

[James_Althoff at i2.com]

[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>.

Some folks, indeed, are fond of this suggestion.

Two points:

1) PEP 276 doesn't prevent "indices" from being added.

2) The "indices" approach is not general enough to handle the example used
in PEP 276.

>>># not the real thing, but an incredible simulation <wink>
>>>
>>>for rowindex in indices(mytable):
>>>    print mytable.getValueAt(rowindex,0)
>>>...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
TypeError: len() of unsized object
>>>

Jim