Re: [Python-Dev] On the possibility of "optimizing" range() calls in for-loops

The SF patch manager has a workable implementation of your idea:

www.python.org/sf/738094 for i in range(N) optimization

The jury is still out on whether it is an elegant, brilliant patch or a horrendous hack.

And why couldn't it be both? :-) --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)