Nicko wrote: > There's a huge difference between not being profligate with resources > and premature optimisation. In the case of the idiom "for i in > range(x):..." there absolutely no utility whatsoever in creating and > recording the list of objects. Unless it makes a difference to code > structure or maintainability, I think that not creating stacks of > objects you don't need is basic code hygiene and not freakish premature > optimisation.
for short lists, both objects create the *same* number of objects. if you cannot refrain from pulling arguments out of your ass, you not really the right person to talk about hygiene. </F> -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list