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Update comments about the performance of xrange().

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Raymond Hettinger 2002-12-11 07:14:03 +00:00
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Doc/lib/libstdtypes.tex
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@ -884,8 +884,8 @@ xrange object will always take the same amount of memory, no matter the
size of the range it represents. There are no consistent performance
advantages.
XRange objects have very little behavior: they only support indexing
and the \function{len()} function.
XRange objects have very little behavior: they only support indexing,
iteration, and the \function{len()} function.
\subsubsection{Mutable Sequence Types \label{typesseq-mutable}}

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Objects/rangeobject.c
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@ -113,8 +113,8 @@ PyDoc_STRVAR(range_doc,
"xrange([start,] stop[, step]) -> xrange object\n\
\n\
Like range(), but instead of returning a list, returns an object that\n\
generates the numbers in the range on demand. This is slightly slower\n\
than range() but more memory efficient.");
generates the numbers in the range on demand. For looping, this is \n\
slightly faster than range() and more memory efficient.");
static PyObject *
range_item(rangeobject *r, int i)