Unreasonable memory usage under linux with a simple loop

[ming_cuhk]

On Jan 2, 11:49 pm, Michele Simionato <michele.simion... at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Jan 2, 4:45 pm, ming_cuhk <maming... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi all, I'm new to here and python.
> > When I tried the code below to test python's speed...
> > I found that python use more than 1.5G memory to run this and cost
> > several minutes.... And this happened only under my linux os. Both
> > jython and python...  Is there something wrong with python under linux
> > or my code?
> > Thanks!
>
> > a = 0
> > for i in range(100000000):
> >     a = a + 1
> > print a
>
> This is fixed in Python 3.0. In older Python versions, use
> xrange instead of range.

Thanks! But this isn't appear in MAC and Windows~?