On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Alexander Belopolsky <alexander.belopol...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
Um, I think you better read the thread. :-) I successfully argued that mimicking the behavior of range() for floats is a bad idea, and that we need to come up with a name for an API that takes start/stop/count arguments instead of start/stop/step. -- --Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido) _______________________________________________ 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
