[Python-3000] range() issues (original) (raw)

Benjamin Peterson musiccomposition at gmail.com
Thu May 1 02:26:35 CEST 2008

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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