I've been playing with Python a bit. Doing little performance benchmarks and working with Psyco. It's been fun and I've been learning a lot. For example, in a previous post, I was looking for a way to dynamically add new runtime function to a class. Martin told me to use a class instance variable instead. It turns out that's faster than hard coding a list of functions. Thanks Martin.
I read that the range function builds a list and that xrange returns an iterator and is therefore more efficient. In my testing, they both come out to almost exactly the same performance wise. Did something get changed in Python 2.4 to make them identical? I searched the web but couldn't find anything that would account for the similarities. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list