Alan Gauld wrote: >> xrange() is being renamed to range(), so there will be no xrange() >> and >> range() will return an iterator rather than a list. >> > > That's sad to see, I use range to generate lists of integers > almost as much as I use it for iteration. But maybe I'm > unusual in that respect, I do use Python mainly for > simulations and its ease of creating large test data > sets is one of its nicer features. Having to convert > an iterator into a list is a bit ugly IMHO! I'd have > preferred to see xrange kept as an iterator and range > returning a list. That seems to me more in keeping > with the names too. > FWIW on my computer l = range(30000000) takes under 0.19 seconds l = list(xrange(3000000)) under 0.27. So I don't think performance is an issue.
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