On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 3:01 PM, Ian Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Sgeo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> for i in range(1000): >>> print "I go on hold. I come off hold." >> >> Well sure, if you use a program to do it, then any number of >> repetitions is trivial (at least until you start getting into the >> gigabytes). We're talking about effort for a *human* to do it. > > Also, you should use xrange. It's faster.
On the other hand, style dictates that you shouldn't define variables you're not planning on using, even loop variables. Which leads to this: from itertools import repeat for action in repeat("I go on hold. I come off hold.", 1000): print action -root