a pyrex-inspired for-i-from-1-to-n construct backported to Python. Good idea? Bad Idea? PEP?

[Francois Pinard]

[Greg Ewing (using news.cis.dfn.de)]

> WP wrote:
> > Greg Ewing wrote the following Pyrex snippet:
> > >     for i from 0 <= i < n:
> > >       result.append(a[i])

> Rather, the motivation was readability and expressiveness.  The things
> I like about it are that it gives very clear and unambiguous control
> over the inclusion or exclusion of both endpoints and the direction
> of iteration.

Which admittedly, after having experienced it, is useful.  

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François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard