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Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ?

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On 2015-02-18 02:14, candide wrote:
> Le mercredi 18 février 2015 01:50:16 UTC+1, Chris Angelico a écrit :
>
>> So, what's a container? It's a thing that you put other objects
>> into.
>
> I agree with this approach. The important point to consider here is
> the last word in your definition : "into". There is the container and
> there is the content (the objects into). The so-called built-in
> containers (list, string, etc) are in conformance with this view.
> Now, regarding a range object as a container disagrees completely
> with the definition given in the PLR : there is no contents and hence
> there is no container. For instance, range(10**6) doesn't hold any
> kind of object, there are no reference to the int objects 0, 1, 2,
> ... As the range's docstring explains, range returns a VIRTUAL
> sequence.
>
It's a virtual, read-only container that contains integers.

Try comparing range(10) with tuple(range(10)). Both contain integers.
Both have a length. Both can be indexed.

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What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2015-02-17 13:21 -0800
  Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2015-02-18 08:39 +1100
    Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? candide <c.candide@laposte.net> - 2015-02-17 16:30 -0800
      Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-18 11:49 +1100
        Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? candide <pascal.ortiz@gmail.com> - 2015-02-17 18:14 -0800
          Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? MRAB <python@mrabarnett.plus.com> - 2015-02-18 18:04 +0000
          Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-18 11:50 -0700
          Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> - 2015-02-18 11:43 -0800
          Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-02-18 15:04 -0500
            Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2015-02-19 10:03 +1100
              Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2015-02-19 11:05 +1100
              Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-02-19 11:33 +1100
  Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2015-02-17 19:54 -0500
  Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? perfectican <perfectican@gmail.com> - 2015-02-19 02:59 -0800
    Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-02-19 11:20 +0000
  Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2015-02-20 03:37 -0800
    Re: What the Pythons docs means by "container" ? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2015-02-20 11:38 -0700

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