New submission from Joseph Thomson joseph.thom...@gmail.com:
The range type should implement the __contains__ method. Currently an
expression like 'x in range(1000)' will iterate through every item
in the range (exiting when an item tests true for equality); this is
highly unnecessary
Joseph Thomson joseph.thom...@gmail.com added the comment:
Seeing as the range type has most likely stabalised by now, I would like
to renew this issue. The current behaviour of range/xrange could
introduce unforeseen performance issues if users are not aware of its
inner workings.
Also, as I
