On Sun, 19 Oct 2008 03:17:51 -0700, John Machin wrote: > 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"?
But I don't say "I'm taking the train UP TO X". Intervals in English are often ambiguous, which is why people often explicitly say "up to and including...". But in this specific case, I don't see why you're having difficulty. Whether 1000 was included or not makes no difference, because 1000 is not a power of 2. -- Steven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
