On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Sgeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>> for i in range(1000):
>>> print "I go on hold. I come off hold."
>>
>> Well sure, if you use a program to do it, then any number of
>> repetitions is trivial (at least until you start getting into the
>> gigabytes). We're talking about effort for a *human* to do it.
>
> Also, you should use xrange. It's faster.
On the other hand, style dictates that you shouldn't define variables
you're not planning on using, even loop variables. Which leads to
this:
from itertools import repeat
for action in repeat("I go on hold. I come off hold.", 1000):
print action
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