[Python-3000] optimizing [x]range (original) (raw)

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Mon Jul 30 02:29:14 CEST 2007


skip at pobox.com wrote:

You can't spell

a <= x <= b or a < x < b without remembering to add or subtract 1 from the appropriate endpoint

I think the use cases for this are where you're trying to express a range-like condition, i.e 'a <= x < b'. Then you have to make sure you get the right relations in the right places, which is the same kind of burden as remembering to add or subtract 1 in the right places.

-- Greg



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