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{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"DiscussionForumPosting","headline":"Special conversions of xrange()","articleBody":"Documenting these requests so they do not get lost...\r\n\r\n#10525 attempted to convert all calls to __six.moves.xrange()__ into calls to __range()__ as part of the removal of Python 2 support.  There were [several suggestions](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/10525#pullrequestreview-97434039) to make alternative conversions:\r\n\r\n- [ ] These functions should just be deleted as they have been deprecated since 2.1: [one](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py#L950) and [two](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/cbook/__init__.py#L11770)\r\n- [ ] Probably better written using [__np.stack()__](https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/reference/generated/numpy.stack.html) or a variant of it: [one](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/colorbar.py#L564-L566) and [two](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/mpl_toolkits/axes_grid1/colorbar.py#L532-L534)\r\n- [ ] Probably should be [__itertools.count()__](https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html#itertools.count): [one](https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/lib/matplotlib/sphinxext/plot_directive.py#L600)\r\n\r\nAfter these changes are made, the lines containing __from six.moves import xrange__ should also be removed.","author":{"url":"https://github.com/cclauss","@type":"Person","name":"cclauss"},"datePublished":"2018-02-21T15:22:58.000Z","interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":"https://schema.org/CommentAction","userInteractionCount":3},"url":"https://github.com/10556/matplotlib/issues/10556"}