On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 22:09:29 +0000, Giovanni Bajo wrote: > [...] you assume that the only use-case of range() is within a for-loop.
No, I do not assume any such thing. I have not suggested that range() should be changed to always return an iterator. I wondered if the Python compiler could, as a special case, turn: for i in range(n) into compiled code equivalent to for i in itr where "itr" is a lightweight iterator that returns the same values as iter(range(n)). iter(range(n)) will still allocate a list of n integers, and then produce an iterator over that list, so I did not mean to suggest that for would simply call iter() when you use "for i in range". I apologize if my writing was unclear. -- Steve R. Hastings "Vita est" [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blarg.net/~steveha -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
