"Diez B. Roggisch" <deets at nospam.web.de> wrote in message news:4bmotsF126gicU1 at uni-berlin.de... > it's considered bad style to use range if all you want is a > enumeration of indices, as it will actually create a list of the size you > specified. Use xrange in such cases. I'm pretty sure this distinction goes away in 2.5. Cheers, Alan Isaac