iterating in reverse

[Michael Hudson]

Erik Max Francis <max at alcyone.com> writes:

> If you expect they'll always be pretty small, then range will be
> perform better (in terms of speed).

I believe Raymond Hettinger got sufficiently annoying with this being
pointed out <wink> that this will no longer be true in 2.3.  From the
whatsnew document:

  xrange() objects now have their own iterator, making for i in
  xrange(n) slightly faster than for i in range(n). (Patch by Raymond
  Hettinger.)

Cheers,
M.

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