I suppose my previous message totally ignored that you acknowledged that
itertools.count exists.
If range were to support infinite ranges, range.__len__ would have to be
changed to either raise an error or return float('inf') in these cases. I
believe __contains__ would also need to have extra checks.
I don't really see the added benefit.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2020, 12:23 PM <ke...@edinburghacademy.org.uk> wrote:
> Proposal:
> range(start, ..., step)
> should function like
> itertools.count(start, step)
>
> Reason:
> It's pretty common to see people do things where they increment a count
> within a while True loop, and it would be nice to have something easily
> available for people to use to replace this.
>
> Usefulness:
> There is definitely a use for this, as the type of code mentioned above is
> common, and itertools.count is commonly used as well.
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