[Python-3000] range() issues (original) (raw)
Guido van Rossum guido at python.org
Thu May 1 02:34:34 CEST 2008
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As I said before, apparently it is practical in the Java world.
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Benjamin Peterson <musiccomposition at gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 7:16 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote: > > > But I didn't find a rationale. I'm sure it was PBP though. > > > > What's PBP? (A search only turns up a bicycle race. :)) > > Practicality Beats Purity, from the zen of Python
It's practical to have a builtin function silently "lie" about the length of a sequence? I don't see how that makes anybody's life much easier. > > > > -- > --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/) >
-- Cheers, Benjamin Peterson
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