multiple discontinued ranges

[Peter Otten]

xoff wrote:

> 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 r in xrange(3, 7), xrange(17, 23):
...     for i in r:
...             print i,
...
3 4 5 6 17 18 19 20 21 22