"bob gailer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> That's sad to see, I use range to generate lists of integers >> almost as much as I use it for iteration.
> FWIW on my computer > l = range(30000000) takes under 0.19 seconds > l = list(xrange(3000000)) under 0.27. > So I don't think performance is an issue. Performance was never an issue for me, its just that I think the explicit conversion to list looks ugly. After all a range is a range of numbers to my mind and a list (actually a tuple) seems like the sensible representation. Making it an iterator seems to be based on an assumption that range will primarily be used in a for loop. Alan G _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
