Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2008 20:45:47 -0700, John Machin wrote: > > > On Oct 19, 2:30 pm, Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > cybersource.com.au> wrote: > > [snip] > >> making your code easy to read and easy to maintain is far more > >> important. > >> > >> for x in (2**i for i in xrange(10)): > >> print x > >> > >> will also print 1, 2, 4, 8, ... up to 1000. > > > > I would say up to 512; perhaps your understanding of "up to" differs > > from mine. > > Well, mine is based on Python's half-open semantics: "up to" 1000 doesn't > include 1000, and the highest power of 2 less than 1000 is 512. We're talking about an English sentence, not a piece of Python code. When you say "I'm taking the train to X", do you get off at the station before X, as in "getting off at Redfern"? > > Perhaps you meant "up to and including 512". > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
