range() is not the best way to check range?

[Andy Dingley]

Summercoolness at gmail.com wrote:

> it seems that range() can be really slow:

>     if i in range (0, 10000):

RTFM on range()

You're completely mis-using it here, using it with an if ... in ...
test. The purpose of range() in Python is as loop control, not
comparisons!  It's not a SQL BETWEEN statement.

Although you _can_ do this (you've done it!) you've also found that
it's slow. Many people would argue that even using range() for loop
control is unusably slow.