Alex Martelli wrote: > Georg Brandl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Slight terminology glitch -- it does return an iterator, not a >> generator. Generators are functions that return iterators. > > xrange returns an ITERABLE, not an ITERATOR. Videat: > >>>> a = xrange(23, 43) >>>> a.next() > Traceback (most recent call last): > File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? > AttributeError: 'xrange' object has no attribute 'next' >>>> > > No next method -> not an iterator. iter(xrange(...)) DOES return an > iterator, btw.
Thanks! Somehow it's always these little corrections that contain errors. And, considering your other posts today, I got away quite well... Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
