itertools comments [Was: Re: RELEASED: Python 2.3a2]

[Jp Calderone]

On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 05:34:55PM -0800, Erik Max Francis wrote:
> Paul Rubin wrote:
> 
> > Yuck, I didn't you could do that with xrange.  It's surprising and
> > somewhat bizarre.
> 
> Neither did I, although abstractly it makes sense.  I doubt that this
> behavior is relied upon very much, though.
> 

  I use it a lot.  Create one xrange object as a module attribute, then
iterate over that single object anywhere it is needed.  Cuts the need for a
function call, and an allocation/deallocation pair.

  Jp

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