xrange question

[John Flynn]

"Paul Prescod" <paulp at ActiveState.com> wrote in message
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> I wouldn't usually think twice to spend a third of a second getting
> ready to process a million lines of text or a million patient records or
> whatever...

I guess that puts it into perspective ;-)

> Here's a program you can use to get a feeling for the behavior of range
> and xrange: [...]

Thanks for that. I'll give it a run.