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

Peter Schneider-Kamp nowonder@nowonder.de
Wed, 30 Aug 2000 11:58:51 +0000

Greg Ewing wrote:

Am I right in thinking that the main motivation here is to clean up the "for i in range(len(a))" idiom? If so, what's wrong with a built-in: def indices(a): return range(len(a))

As far as I know adding a builtin indices() has been rejected as an idea.

Peter

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