On Wed, Feb 17, 2016 at 8:30 PM, Alan Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 2/17/2016 12:28 PM, G Young wrote: >> >> Perhaps, but we are not coding in Haskell. We are coding in Python, and >> the standard is that the endpoint is excluded, which renders your point >> moot I'm afraid. > > I am not sure what "standard" you are talking about. > I thought we were talking about the user interface.
It is a persistent and consistent convention (i.e. "standard") across Python APIs that deal with integer ranges (range(), slice(), random.randrange(), ...), particularly those that end up related to indexing; e.g. `x[np.random.randint(0, len(x))]` to pull a random sample from an array. random.randint() was the one big exception, and it was considered a mistake for that very reason, soft-deprecated in favor of random.randrange(). -- Robert Kern
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