multiple discontinued ranges

[Paul Rudin]

xoff <igor.idziejczak at gmail.com> writes:

> I was wondering what the best method was in Python programming for 2
> discontinued ranges. e.g. I want to use the range 3 to 7 and 17 to 23.
> Am I obliged to use 2 for loops defining the 2 ranges like this:
>
> for i in range (3,7):
>  do bla
> for i in range (7,17):
>  do bla
>
> or is there a more clever way to do this?


for i in itertools.chain(xrange(3,7), xrange(17,23)):
    print i