I'm starting to think like a Pythonista

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:03:41 -0400, brad wrote:

> Bjoern Schliessmann wrote:
>> brad wrote:
>>> low_odds = [1,3,5,7,9]
>>> # make a list containing 10 - 98 evens only
>>> big_evens =  big_evens = [x for x in list(xrange(99)) if x % 2 ==
>>> 0 and x >8]
>> 
>> Why use xrange if you convert it to a full list in place? No
>> advantage there.
> 
> What is the dis-advantage of using xrange over range in this circumstance?

It's an unnecessary intermediate step.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch