indexing, indices(), irange(), list.items() (was RE: [Python-Dev] Lockstep iteration (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake@beopen.com
Fri, 18 Aug 2000 10:12:24 -0400 (EDT)

Tim Peters writes:

I'm stifling it, but, FWIW, I've been trying to sell "indexing" for most of my adult life <wink -- but yes, in my experience too range(len(seq)) is extraordinarly hard to get across to newbies at first; and I *expect* [:len(seq)] to be at least as hard>.

And "for i indexing o in ...:" is the best proposal I've seen to resolve the whole problem in what I would describe as a Pythonic way. And it's not a new proposal. I haven't read the specific patch, but bugs can be fixed. I guess a lot of us will just have to disagree with the Guido on this one. ;-( Linguistic coup, anyone? ;-)

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr. BeOpen PythonLabs Team Member