> and for short sequences, it doesn't really matter much in the 2.X series. > it's definitely not "bad style" to use range instead of xrange for a ten > to, say, 1000 item loop.
You and me are aware of that - but I figured the OP wasn't. And just the other day somebody on de.c.l.py wondered about the memory consumption of his little script that contained a range(9000000) which he used for a loop. And as in the case of a "for in" one can't even access the list produced by range() and thus there is virtually no difference to xrange, I'd consider it a code smell if it's used there - why creating an object you don't use when you can't even get a reference to it? Diez -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
