Crawling Python

[MK]

On Fri, 18 Jun 1999 19:34:03 GMT, Sam Schulenburg <sams at quinta.com> wrote:

>> >>> len(s)
>> 1178515

>I just tried both environments on a WindowsNT system and obtained
>130000 for len(s) under IDLE and Console mode python.

Win98. I tried the same several more times in DOS box and got different results
every time:

>>> for i in range(10000):
...     s=s+`range(i,i+20)`
...
>>>
>>>
>>> len(s)
1645360
>>>
>>>
>>> s=''
>>>
>>> for i in range(10000):
...     s=s+`range(i,i+20)`
...
>>> len(s)
1178515
>>>
>>> for i in range(10000):
...     s=s+`range(i,i+20)`
...
>>> len(s)
2357030
>>>

Now _that_ is weird.





MK


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