[Python-Dev] range objects in 3.x

[Ethan Furman]

Guido van Rossum wrote:
> But why offer an API that is an attractive nuisance? I don't think
> that it is a burden to the user to have to specify "from 0 to 2 inches
> in 8 steps" instead of "from 0 to 2 inches in 1/4 inch steps". (And
> what if they tried to say "from 0 to 3 1/4 inches in 1/2 inch steps"
> ?)

And how many steps in "from 37 3/4 inches to 90 1/4 inches" ?  I don't 
want to have to calculate that.  That's what computers are for.

Your last example is no different than today's range(2, 10, 3) -- we 
don't get 10 or 9.

~Ethan~