Translate this to python?

[Heiko Wundram]

Xavier Morel wrote:
> 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).

I know this, and that's one of the reasons I'm a little at odds with Python
3000... There are many good things in there (such as removing the
FP-facilities which are much more clearly and cleverly implemented using
generator- and list-comprehensions), but some things are so basic (such as
xrange) I wouldn't want to have to implement them every time I need such a
beast.

Unless of course range() becomes "more clever" and returns an iterator in
case the amount of memory to store the needed range is too large, which
would of course mean obfuscation at other places...

I just don't know.

--- Heiko.