Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

[Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch]

On Tue, 13 May 2008 10:20:41 -0700, John Nagle wrote:

> Matt Nordhoff wrote:
>
>> Well, you should use "xrange(10)" instead of "range(10)". 
> 
>    CPython really is naive.  That sort of thing should be a
> compile-time optimization.

It's not naive, it can't know at compile time what object is bound to the
name `xrange` at runtime.

Ciao,
	Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch