[Python-checkins] r73161 - python/branches/py3k/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst

benjamin.peterson python-checkins at python.org
Wed Jun 3 05:13:30 CEST 2009


Author: benjamin.peterson
Date: Wed Jun  3 05:13:30 2009
New Revision: 73161

Log:
range() doesn't return a list

Modified:
   python/branches/py3k/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst

Modified: python/branches/py3k/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst
==============================================================================
--- python/branches/py3k/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst	(original)
+++ python/branches/py3k/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst	Wed Jun  3 05:13:30 2009
@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@
 Names in the target list are not deleted when the loop is finished, but if the
 sequence is empty, it will not have been assigned to at all by the loop.  Hint:
 the built-in function :func:`range` returns an iterator of integers suitable to
-emulate the effect of Pascal's ``for i := a to b do``; e.g., ``range(3)``
+emulate the effect of Pascal's ``for i := a to b do``; e.g., ``list(range(3))``
 returns the list ``[0, 1, 2]``.
 
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