From 19f9da6f646cdd1b1fd74ebdc90da7a70ea0ce12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: 4l4k4z4m Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2023 10:16:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] gh-81611: Improve `range` paragraph in 8.3 of language reference (GH-98353) (cherry picked from commit 8b1f1251215651c4ef988622345c5cb134e54d69) Co-authored-by: 4l4k4z4m Co-authored-by: Kumar Aditya <59607654+kumaraditya303@users.noreply.github.com> Co-authored-by: Terry Jan Reedy --- Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst b/Doc/reference/compound_stmts.rst index fe9dda933c8071..d5cb2899c231b4 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. .. versionchanged:: 3.11 Starred elements are now allowed in the expression list.