Joe Goldthwaite wrote: > I read that the range function builds a list and that xrange > returns an iterator and is therefore more efficient.
This is generally not true. > 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? No. Try again with a list of length 10000000. Regards, Björn -- BOFH excuse #359: YOU HAVE AN I/O ERROR -> Incompetent Operator error -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
