Speeding up a script -- looking for ideas

[Richard Bow]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> wrote in 
news:3DB26BA3.DEB4722E at alcyone.com:

> One obvious optimization is that you're using range with huge values,
> which is going to be expensive -- range returns a list, so calling it
> with large values will create an enormous list, which is wasteful if all
> you plan on doing is enumerating it.  Try using xrange, or iterating
> manually instead.

Well, range does return a list, but the list is reinitialized to [] for 
each n, so it never has more than 2 (and hoping for 3) objects (so far, 
i.e, up to n = 1,200,000).

Could you explain what you mean by "iterating manually"?

I'll take a look at xrange.

Thanks,

Richard Bow