>> To begin with this already fails: >> >>>>> for i in xrange(Top): >> ... print i > > What do you expect this to do? Loop forever?
Perhaps the infinite loop should take half as long as >>> for i in xrange(Bottom, Top): print i Though then the values when the loop first starts are kinda ambiguous... :) Given the limits of xrange: >>> for i in xrange(10000000000000000000000000,10000000000000000000000009): ... print i Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in ? OverflowError: long int too large to convert to int I suspect one would have an overflow condition to help break you out of the loop... >>> try: ... for i in range(Top): ... print i ... except OverflowError: ... print 'done!' ...and then you time your instruction cycles and your disk reads so they fall under the read-head at just the right time... [*] -tkc [*] http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
