Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

[Ben Finney]

John Nagle <nagle at animats.com> writes:

> 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.

Or even a case of the 'xrange' behaviour making 'range' obsolete.

Which, as I pointed out earlier in the thread, it is in Python 3.0.

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Ben Finney