Guido van Rossum wrote:
On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Ethan Furman <et...@stoneleaf.us> wrote:
Guido van Rossum wrote:
But why offer an API that is an attractive nuisance? I don't think
that it is a burden to the user to have to specify "from 0 to 2 inches
in 8 steps" instead of "from 0 to 2 inches in 1/4 inch steps". (And
what if they tried to say "from 0 to 3 1/4 inches in 1/2 inch steps"
?)
And how many steps in "from 37 3/4 inches to 90 1/4 inches" ? I don't want
to have to calculate that. That's what computers are for.
That's just silly. The number of steps is (stop - start) / step.
Not silly at all -- it begs for an api of (start, stop, step), not
(start, stop, count).
Personally, I have no problems with typing either 'step=...' or
'stop=...', but I think losing step as an option is a *ahem* step backwards.
~Ethan~
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