range() is not the best way to check range?

[Leif K-Brooks]

Summercoolness at gmail.com wrote:
> or is there an alternative use of range() or something similar that can
> be as fast?

You could use xrange:

leif at ubuntu:~$ python -m timeit -n10000 "1 in range(10000)"
10000 loops, best of 3: 260 usec per loop
leif at ubuntu:~$ python -m timeit -n10000 "1 in xrange(10000)"
10000 loops, best of 3: 0.664 usec per loop