[Python-3000] range() issues

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.
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> --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
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Cheers,
Benjamin Peterson