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On Jul 29, 2011, at 9:22 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> Billy Mays wrote:
>=20
>> Is xrange not a generator?  I know it doesn't return a tuple or list, =
so
>> what exactly is it? =20
>=20
> xrange pre-dates generators by approximately forever. It returns a
> special "xrange object", which generates values suitable for use in
> for-loops using the old __getitem__ protocol.
>=20

interesting...I never really thought about this.  Is there a reason that =
it wasn't reimplemented when generators came out?  Is there a use-case =
for the current implementation that wouldn't work as a generator?


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