3 ms·

Why not? The precision one sounds convincing and I don't have any obvious counters

• kreetx 4y ago
  Let's say you want to find accommodation from day x to y, would you rather have [x, y + 1) as the interval in the code? In other words, I think the blog post lists problems the author has had and in those cases an open-closed interval would have worked better. But one could come up with an opposite case, would that be equally true?
  • zasdffaa 4y ago
    IIRC (bit rusty now) python makes you do exactly [x, y + 1) in code and it pisses me off which is why I did my own trivial end-is-included range for loops.
    • bigDinosaur 4y ago
      Otherwise would result in surprises like range(10) giving 11 values, violating convention. I admit I usually have to pause to remember whether it's inclusive of the upper bound or not.
  • asplake 4y ago
    Of course if datetimes are involved, you need to go up midnight. So you’re back to +1 and a half-open range