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[3.10] gh-81611: Improve `range` paragraph in 8.3 of language reference (GH-98353) (#100705)
gh-81611: Improve `range` paragraph in 8.3 of language reference (GH-98353)
(cherry picked from commit 8b1f1251215651c4ef988622345c5cb134e54d69)
Co-authored-by: 4l4k4z4m <alakazamjoined@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
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| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst index 58b88c4..20c85a9 100644 --- a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst +++ b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst @@ -192,9 +192,8 @@ those made in the suite of the for-loop:: Names in the target list are not deleted when the loop is finished, but if the sequence is empty, they will not have been assigned to at all by the loop. Hint: -the built-in function :func:`range` returns an iterator of integers suitable to -emulate the effect of Pascal's ``for i := a to b do``; e.g., ``list(range(3))`` -returns the list ``[0, 1, 2]``. +the built-in type :func:`range` represents immutable arithmetic sequences of integers. +For instance, iterating ``range(3)`` successively yields 0, 1, and then 2. .. _try: |