how best to iterate i times ?

[Mike Rovner]

Randall Smith wrote:
> for i in range(100000):
> dothis()
>
> I like how clean this syntax is, but this method is very wasteful.
> The list created by range(100000) consumes a fair amount of memory
> and it is only used to iterate.
...
> So, question is:  What is the efficient, elegant, pythonic way to
> iterate with integers?

Solely for that purpose 'xrange' was created:

for i in xrange(100000):
  dothis()

HTH,
Mike