From 2ffa671de77d9b3ca8f43669ae62a1913174b8e0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Raymond Hettinger Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:18:21 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] range() example --- Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst | 11 ++++++++++- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst index f51adc8ea3a..38d2febe1b5 100644 --- a/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst +++ b/Doc/whatsnew/3.2.rst @@ -508,7 +508,16 @@ Some smaller changes made to the core Python language are: :class:`collections.Sequence` :term:`abstract base class`. As a result, the language will have a more uniform API. In addition, :class:`range` objects now support slicing and negative indices. This makes *range* more - interoperable with lists. + interoperable with lists:: + + >>> range(0, 100, 2).count(10) + 1 + >>> range(0, 100, 2).index(10) + 5 + >>> range(0, 100, 2)[5] + 10 + >>> range(0, 100, 2)[0:5] + range(0, 10, 2) (Contributed by Daniel Stuzback in :issue:`9213` and by Alexander Belopolsky in :issue:`2690`.)