generators : random shootout

[David Eppstein]

In article <pan.2002.01.11.17.12.23.738306.2860 at uchicago.edu>,
 Ben Wolfson <wolfson at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> Changing this to
> for i in zip(gr, xrange(1, N)):
>     pass
> 
> speeds it up a bit.

What's the point of null-looping over the list made by zip?
And did you really want to iterate exactly N-1 times?
Why not just
    zip(gr,xrange(N))
?
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David Eppstein       UC Irvine Dept. of Information & Computer Science
eppstein at ics.uci.edu http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/