>> for a in range(5): > ... >> for z in range(5): > > means the inner loop runs 5**26 times so perhaps it's not only > unpythonic but also uncomputable...
only if you're impatient ;) yes, it was a contrived pessimal example. It could be range(2) to generate boolean-number sequences. I've done 2**26 loops in code before (well, it was on the way to 2**32, just to see how long it took to roll over and hit an error condition). The main emphasis was to show that there was a pattern unfolding that should have been translated into more pythonic code than just hard-coding nested loops. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list