Re:Just why did people start using Python anyway?
by abstractbill on Thursday October 09, 2008 @12:41PM
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Yes, I know. It's just bad that people are taught one way of iterating, and then may or may not learn the right way at some later time.
xrange() addresses the problem you describe and has been in Python since, like, forever. However, range() is nicer for learning the language, since it's easy to see how it composes into a list.