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Wed Jun 30 22:17:15 EDT 2004 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2004-June/045789.html

"Chermside, Michael" <mchermside at ingdirect.com>:

>     >>> for i in len(myList):
>     ...     doSomethingWithIndexes(i)
> 
> is simple and elegant.

IMO it would be clearer, and equally elegant, to write
this as something like

  for i in indices(myList):
    ...

which is easily accomplished with the aid of a suitable
definition for indices(). No language changes needed.

I suspect most people other than number theorists would
find the concept of a set of integers being contained
in another integer quite wierd.

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[Python-Dev] PEP 276 (simple iterator for ints)