how many nested for can we utilize?

[Fredrik Lundh]

Nick Dumas wrote:

> A good quote I read (I can't remember who it was from, though) is "If
> you need more than three levels of indentation, then something is
> seriously wrong with your code." Possibly Guido himself? Anyway. If
> you've got 100 levels of for, you're probably making things way harder
> than they need to be.

assuming 100 levels of for and 2 items in each sequence, you'll end up 
with 1267650600228229401496703205376 iterations through the inner loop. 
  assuming each iteration takes a picosecond, it'll take approx 40 
billion years to run the program.

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