On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> wrote: .. > In the math module, we used an f prefix to differentiate math.fsum() from the > built-in sum() function. That suggests frange() as a possible name for a > variant of range() that creates floats. > > That works reasonably well if the default argument pattern is the same as > range: frange(10.0, 20.0, 0.5)
+1 on adding frange() to math module or to the recently contemplated stats module. For something that aspires to becoming a builtin one day, I would like to see something not focused on floats exclusively and something with a proper English name. _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
