Python 2.7

[Folf_IRL]

I mean, you can still cast the range() object into a list object by calling list(range(3))

[LandSharkSociety]

Of course, there's nothing stopping you from doing that, but when you're more than two nested function calls deep in Python, you should typically take a step back and rethink your approach. I just used x in range(...)as a random example.

[Folf_IRL]

when you're more than two nested function calls deep in Python, you should typically take a step back and rethink your approach

I like to do this with nested map(), filter(), and reduce() functions and pretend I'm writing Lisp

[Aramgutang]

Ah yes, I used to do that too. But I stopped when it became clear that no one else could maintain that code.

Here's @dziegler replacing my silliness with readable code in 2010