On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 10:05 AM, Guido van Rossum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .. > > > > What would you say to an idea of exposing rangeiter in itertools - say > > itertools.irange(..) function that returns an iterator? > > You're kidding right? If you *want* the iterator, what's wrong with > iter(range(N))? It's even less characters than itertools.irange(N). > :-)
No, I was not kidding (but I may be acting as a performance freak:-). Since you cannot reuse the result of iter(range(N)), using explicit iter call over implicit does not save much. I would be happy with itertool.count(..) getting an optional stop argument instead of adding irange(). _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
