On Dec 11, 3:55 am, "Chris Mellon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > No. What range does is create and return a list of integers. The > iteration is a separate step, and is traditional list iteration. In > longhand, for x in range(y): looks something like this: > > range = [] > #this loop happens in C and is super-fast for small values of y, it > #gets much much slower when y gets out of the range of pre-allocated list > pools > #and the small integer cache > while y >= 0: > range.append(y) > y -= 1
When y is 3, the above appears to produce [3, 2, 1, 0] ... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
