Fuzzyman wrote:
On Jan 25, 2:28 pm, Alan G Isaac <alan.is...@gmail.com> wrote:
On 1/16/2009 3:13 PM Alan G Isaac apparently wrote:
> It is documented:
>http://docs.python.org/3.0/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-str-b...
But then again, the opposite is also documented,
since `range` is a sequence type. Quoting:
Sequences also support slicing ...
Some sequences also support “extended slicing”
Is this a documentation bug, or a bug in `range`?
(I'd think the latter.)
No range slicing is intended.
Where does the documentation say that range objects are sequences?
They're iterables.
Range objects (2.x xrange objects) were more sequence-like in 2.x. 3.0
doc still says "There are five sequence types: strings, byte sequences,
byte arrays, lists, tuples, and range objects" (the miscount has already
been reported.)
I added a note to
http://bugs.python.org/issue4966
suggesting that ranges be removed from the sequence section.
I made several other suggestions for improving this sections.
Supportive comments might help get action.
tjr
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