[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > or is there an alternative use of range() or something similar that can > be as fast?
You could use xrange: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -m timeit -n10000 "1 in range(10000)" 10000 loops, best of 3: 260 usec per loop [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ python -m timeit -n10000 "1 in xrange(10000)" 10000 loops, best of 3: 0.664 usec per loop -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
