On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:39:26 +0200, Fredrik Lundh wrote: >> A good quote I read (I can't remember who it was from, though) is "If >> you need more than three levels of indentation, then something is >> seriously wrong with your code." Possibly Guido himself? Anyway. If >> you've got 100 levels of for, you're probably making things way harder >> than they need to be. > > assuming 100 levels of for and 2 items in each sequence, you'll end up > with 1267650600228229401496703205376 iterations through the inner loop. > assuming each iteration takes a picosecond, it'll take approx 40 > billion years to run the program.
I guess that's exactly why the OP asks the question. He just wants to start as soon as possible ;-) -- Regards, Wojtek Walczak, http://www.stud.umk.pl/~wojtekwa/ -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
