[Tutor] Looping

[W W]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Matt
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> wrote:

> Thank you. Func is in fact a call to an external non-python program. =]
> Therefore, the loop must actually be mindlessly done. My question, however,
> has been answered.
> As an aside, why use range rather than xrange? I was under the impression
> that xrange is a generator and therefore more memory efficient.
>

Probably because for small values (under 100), range just looks cleaner, and
as far as memory goes it's not a whole lot of difference.

AFAIK,
Wayne
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