On Jan 2, 4:45 pm, ming_cuhk <maming...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, I'm new to here and python. > When I tried the code below to test python's speed... > I found that python use more than 1.5G memory to run this and cost > several minutes.... And this happened only under my linux os. Both > jython and python... Is there something wrong with python under linux > or my code? > Thanks! > > a = 0 > for i in range(100000000): > a = a + 1 > print a
This is fixed in Python 3.0. In older Python versions, use xrange instead of range. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list