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Xavier Morel wrote:
> While xrange does have it's place in Python, it has very few actual uses
> (yours being one of the few), and is usually more harmful than beneficial.
>
> While the deprecation of xrange is not that "soon", it is part of the
> Python 3000 PEP (http://www.python.org/peps/pep-3000.html#id38) along
> with the deprecation of most FP-facilities of Python (filter, map, reduce).
>
> It should also be noted that reimplementing xrange when needed is
> trivial and can be done with a 5-lines generator for the minimal version
> (1 argument, 0-n range) and probably less than 10 lines for the full
> blown version equivalent to the current one (including start, end and
> step arguments)

Seems that xrange() would be deprecated because range() will be the
lazy version, so a name change or more like that the current range(),
i.e. the one that returns a list will be deprecated, feature wise.