How many is "too many" with lists?

[Neel Krishnaswami]

Courageous <jkraska1 at san.rr.com> wrote:
> 
> Well, this is a bit off the subject, but in recent Python
> misadventures, I'm pretty sure that
> 
> for i in range ( 1000000 ):
> 
> definitely isn't the right way to loop............

You can use xrange(), which doesn't allocate a whole list, but instead
returns an object with __getitem__ methods that return the right
integers to emulate a range. When you need to loop over 10 million
elements it becomes helpful. :)


Neel