xrange question

[Andrew Dalke]

Greg Ewing wrote in message <3AF8BAF0.424097A4 at my.signature>...
>Alex Martelli wrote:
>> I always use range() -- and it's all Tim Peters' fault, darn it!
>
>I always use xrange() -- and *that's* Tim's fault too!

I use 'winkrange', which goes a little something like

import urllib
conn = urllib.urlopen("http://groups.google.com/groups?" \
                      "group=comp.lang.python.*&q=tim_one")
s = conn.fp.read()

wink = 10000
_WINK_VALUE = wink + (hash(s) % wink) + (wink <wink> wink)

def winkrange(*args):
  r = xrange
  if len(args) == 1:
    if args[0] < _WINK_VALUE:
      r = range
  elif len(args) == 2:
    try:
      if args[1] - args[0] < _WINK_VALUE:
        r = range
    except OverflowError:
      pass
  elif len(args) == 3:
    try:
      if (args[1] - args[0]) / args[2] < _WINK_VALUE:
        r = range
    except OverflowError:
      pass
  else:
    r = range
  return apply(r, args)

and that's also Tim's fault!

                    Andrew
                    dalke at acm.org