Alan Gauld wrote: >> I can reproduce the problem on my Linux system, so it is not Mac >> specific. Using xrange makes no difference. > > I believe that in recent Pythons (v2.3 onwards?) xrange is just > an alias for range since range was reimplementted to use > generators. So the old menory issues with range no longer > apply.
No, range() still returns a list, it is not a generator. That change is for Python 3.0. Kent _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor