[Python-Dev] Xrange and Slices

Oren Tirosh oren-py-d@hishome.net
Thu, 27 Jun 2002 03:06:03 -0400


On Wed, Jun 26, 2002 at 02:37:17AM -0400, Raymond Hettinger wrote:
> Wild idea of the day:
> Merge the code for xrange() into slice().
> So that old code will work, make the word 'xrange' a synonym for 'slice'

It looks possible, but it will hurt the performance of xrange.  Internally, 
xrange uses C longs while slice uses python objects with all the associated 
overhead.  

	Oren