[Python-Dev] Lukewarm about range literals (original) (raw)

Ka-Ping Yee ping@lfw.org
Tue, 29 Aug 2000 15:09:46 -0500 (CDT)

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Greg Wilson wrote:

The problem with using ellipsis is that there's no obvious way to include a stride --- how do you hit every second (or n'th) element, rather than every element?

As explained in the examples i posted,

1, 3 .. 20

could produce

(1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17, 19)

-- ?!ng