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On Aug 11, 10:55 am, M8R-n7v... at mailinator.com wrote:
> On Aug 10, 10:10 pm, Kris Kennaway <k... at FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>
> > jlist wrote:
> > > I think what makes more sense is to compare the code one most
> > > typically writes. In my case, I always use range() and never use psyco.
> > > But I guess for most of my work with Python performance hasn't been
> > > a issue. I haven't got to write any large systems with Python yet, where
> > > performance starts to matter.
>
> > Hopefully when you do you will improve your programming practices to not
> > make poor choices - there are few excuses for not using xrange ;)
>
> > Kris
>
> And can you shed some light on how that relates with one of the zens
> of python ?
>
> There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
>
> Dhananjay

And that is xrange, but if you need a list range is better :P