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Re: What is xrange?

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On Sat, 30 Jul 2011 21:36:41 +1000, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> declaimed the following in
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> Probably because nobody thought about it, but if it had been proposed to
> change xrange into an iterator, I'm pretty confident that the suggestion
> would have been rejected. xrange objects might be lazily generated, but
> they're also sequence types: you can get their length, and you can index
> them. (However you can't slice them.) Iterators are not sequence types:
> they aren't indexable and you can't get their length.
>
	Ah, but what did they change range() into -- I seem to recall
reading the Python 3.x turned the regular range() into something else...
(from Python <3.x returning a full list)
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  Re: What is xrange? Jerry Hill <malaclypse2@gmail.com> - 2011-07-29 16:36 -0400
  Re: What is xrange? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-30 11:22 +1000
    Re: What is xrange? Brian Blais <bblais@bryant.edu> - 2011-07-30 06:23 -0400
      Re: What is xrange? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2011-07-30 21:36 +1000
        Re: What is xrange? Brian Blais <bblais@bryant.edu> - 2011-07-30 09:46 -0400
        Re: What is xrange? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2011-07-30 17:06 -0700
        Re: What is xrange? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-07-31 01:10 +0100
        Re: What is xrange? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2011-07-30 23:42 -0700
      Re: What is xrange? Gregory Ewing <greg.ewing@canterbury.ac.nz> - 2011-07-31 12:18 +1200

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