Mercurial > cpython-lru_cache-weakref
diff Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex @ 18391:aadd99830531 legacy-trunk
Rip out the fancy behaviors of xrange that nobody uses: repeat, slice,
contains, tolist(), and the start/stop/step attributes. This includes
removing the 4th ('repeat') argument to PyRange_New().
| author | Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> |
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| date | Thu, 05 Jul 2001 13:27:48 +0000 |
| parents | bc05a95242a3 |
| children | 1d0d3e6a3201 |
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--- a/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex Thu Jul 05 07:06:26 2001 +0000 +++ b/Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex Thu Jul 05 13:27:48 2001 +0000 @@ -775,12 +775,8 @@ size of the range it represents. There are no consistent performance advantages. -XRange objects behave like tuples, and offer a single method: - -\begin{methoddesc}[xrange]{tolist}{} - Return a list object which represents the same values as the xrange - object. -\end{methoddesc} +XRange objects have very little behavior: they only support indexing +and the \function{len()} function. \subsubsection{Mutable Sequence Types \label{typesseq-mutable}}