About generators
Ben Finney
bignose-hates-spam at and-benfinney-does-too.id.au
Mon Apr 26 02:21:03 EDT 2004
On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 06:30:10 GMT, Andrea Griffini wrote:
> I'm new to python and I really like what I've seen so far with just
> one exception; the absence of a nice syntax for ranges of integers.
I'm not sure if you're unaware of the range() builtin:
for i in range(10):
print i
Are you saying this isn't a "nice syntax"? It seems quite
self-explanatory, and doesn't require new syntax.
What is it you don't like about range()?
> [I prefer] having "expr1 ... expr2" returning an iterator from expr1
> to expr2 (second limit included).
If this were to happen, I'd prefer two periods instead of three
(matching previous experience with Pascal and related languages).
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