Calculating factorial

[Steve Horne]

On Mon, 4 Dec 2000 17:45:46 +0100, "Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Attempts to get more sophisticated, such as
>
>def factorial(f):
>    import operator
>    return reduce(operator.mul, range(1,f+1), 1L)
>
>will not necessarily bring happiness.

Might be faster with xrange (which doesn't build the whole list before
returning), but the simple for loop will probably still win for speed.
Functional-style list manipulations (once you are used to them) are
for speed of development, not speed of execution.

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