Nick Coghlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] > (xrange can't handle Python longs, unfortunately, so we *are* > constrained by sys.maxint. However, since my machine only has half a > gig of RAM, the above is still a damn sight quicker than the > equivalent list comprehension would be!) [...]
Other way 'round: if you had even more RAM, the listcomp would be even slower for this job! John -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
