Guido van Rossum wrote: [..] >> Were you drunk at the time? :-) No, I just remember that I made that mistake several times. [..] > > It seems to be used quite widely already; > > > > http://google.com/codesearch?hl=en&q=+%5E.*if%5Cs%2B.*%5Cs%2Bin%5Cs%2Brange%5C(.*%24&start=10&sa=N > > >> Sorry, 50 hits is not "quite widely". Not everything is known to google's code search. I'm just saying that there's code out there that uses this syntax. >> Did you find *any* examples using a step > 1? No, I didn't. I'm not arguing for that use case either, I'm mainly interested in the use case where step == 1. Johan