for a in range(1000000) :

[Gerrit Holl]

Maurix wrote:
> Thanks, exactly what i mean! And it was a built-in function! I'm blind!

You may also be interested in itertools.repeat, included with Python
as of Python 2.3. It is even faster. See this post by Alex Martelli
on the python-dev mailinglist:

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-June/036359.html

FWIW, I have sent a docpatch to include this information in the
standard library documentation:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=754632&group_id=5470&atid=305470

yours,
Gerrit.

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