built in list generator?

[Andrii V. Mishkovskyi]

2008/5/14 Ethan Furman <efurman at admailinc.com>:
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>  Ben Finney wrote:
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> Subject: Re: built in list generator?
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> From: Ben Finney <bignose+hates-spam at benfinney.id.au>
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> Date: Wed, 14 May 2008 09:43:43 +1000
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> To: python-list at python.org
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>  "Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> writes:
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>  globalrev schrieb:
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>  if i want a list with all numbers between x and y is there a way to
> do this with an inbult function.
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> i mean i can always construct a function to do this but is there
> soemthing like:
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> nbrs = list(range(50,100, 2))
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>  range *does* that. use xrange if all you want is to iterate.
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>  Until Python 3.0, where 'range' returns an iterable.
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>  Is there a thread somewhere of the discussion for this change?  I'm
> presuming range is used almost exclusively in loops where a change in the
> return type would have no negative effect.
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