Message 81745 - Python tracker (original) (raw)

Not too worried about either issue. For the first, it makes the code closer to its pure python equivalent. Better to add some math module function like Matlab's linspace(). It's hard to prevent people from creating numerical mistakes no matter what. Besides, now it's possible to write: count(Decimal('1.1'), Decimal('.1')) and get exact progressions.

For the second, the non-interruptability issue is everpresent throughout the language. If we get some uniform way of dealing with it, that would be great (though I expect it will slow down lots of things we care about and provide nearly zero benefit). Since count() and repeat() came out in itertools eons ago, there have been zero bug reports or user complaints about the issue. So, I'll take it as a non-issue.