text_combined: guido van rossum hoaufpythonorg tue apr 29 2008 753 pm alexander belopolsky wrote tue apr 29 2008 1036 pm guido van rossum wrote good reasons range return iterable iterator eg r rangen r j r realize snippet whatever cycles save creating r give away creating iterr twice compared range returning iterator write rangen j rangen 3 vs 2 auxiliary objects created often see code benefit generalized square rectangular matrices lots c code go away nix range object leave rangeiterator thats completely besides point point example python code doesnt write rangen twice guido van rossum home page httpwwwpythonorgguido _______________________________________________ python3000 mailing list smsbmo9552pythonorg httpmailpythonorgmailmanlistinfopython3000 unsubscribe httpmailpythonorgmailmanoptionspython3000python300040tangomucom thu 07 aug 2008 214205 0700 python3000 range issues