Make some shim object that you can index into to get that functionality,
could even call it Z (for the set of all integers). Short, and requires no
new syntax.
class IndexableRange:
def __getitem__(self, item):
if isinstance(item, slice):
start = item.start if item.start is not None else 0
step = item.step if item.step is not None else 1
if item.stop is None:
return itertools.count(start, step)
else:
return range(start, item.stop, step)
else:
return item
Z = IndexableRange()
for y in Z[0:10:2]:
print(y)
On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 5:22 PM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 14 February 2017 at 22:41, MRAB <pyt...@mrabarnett.plus.com> wrote:
>
>> On 2017-02-14 21:09, Zachary Ware wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 3:06 PM, Mikhail V <mikhail...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a small syntax idea.
>>>> In short, contraction of
>>>>
>>>> for x in range(a,b,c) :
>>>>
>>>> to
>>>>
>>>> for x in a,b,c :
>>>>
>>>> I really think there is something cute in it.
>>>> So like a shortcut for range() which works only in for-in statement.
>>>> So from syntactical POV, do you find it nice syntax?
>>>> Visually it seems to me less bulky than range().
>>>>
>>>> Example:
>>>>
>>>> for x in 0,5 :
>>>> print (x)
>>>> for y in 0,10,2 :
>>>> print (y)
>>>> for z in 0, y+8 :
>>>> print (z)
>>>>
>>>
>>> This is already valid and useful syntax, and thus a non-starter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> The closest you could get without breaking existing code is [a:b:c]:
>>
>> for x in [0:5]:
>> print(x)
>> for y in [0:10:2]:
>> print(y)
>> for z in [0:y+8]:
>> print(z)
>>
>> What's more, that could be valid outside the 'for' loop too.
>>
>>
> This looks really good, at first glance I would even expect this will
> work,
> comes so common from lists and numpy index ranges.
>
>
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