[Tutor] replacing range with xrange
Alan Gauld
alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Mon Jan 28 20:32:18 CET 2008
> xrange() is being renamed to range(), so there will be no xrange()
> and
> range() will return an iterator rather than a list.
That's sad to see, I use range to generate lists of integers
almost as much as I use it for iteration. But maybe I'm
unusual in that respect, I do use Python mainly for
simulations and its ease of creating large test data
sets is one of its nicer features. Having to convert
an iterator into a list is a bit ugly IMHO! I'd have
preferred to see xrange kept as an iterator and range
returning a list. That seems to me more in keeping
with the names too.
Alan G.
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