Re: [Visualpython-users] Speed?!

[Anton S. <br...@po...>]

Susanne Moelbert wrote:
> I was very amazed yesterday when I wanted to calculate
> a simple thing with Python. I typed
> 
> for a in range(200):
>     for b in range(200):
>         for c in range(200):
>             pass
> 
> and it took over 10 seconds! . . .

range() works by creating a list [0, 1, ... 199].
The above code appears to do that 40201 times.

This saves about half the time:

	spam = range(200)
	for a in spam:
	  for b in spam:
	    for c in spam:
	      pass

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