On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:03:41 -0400, brad wrote: > Bjoern Schliessmann wrote: >> brad wrote: >>> low_odds = [1,3,5,7,9] >>> # make a list containing 10 - 98 evens only >>> big_evens = big_evens = [x for x in list(xrange(99)) if x % 2 == >>> 0 and x >8] >> >> Why use xrange if you convert it to a full list in place? No >> advantage there. > > What is the dis-advantage of using xrange over range in this circumstance?
It's an unnecessary intermediate step. Ciao, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list