Rationale behind Python's preferred for syntax
- by susmits
What is the rationale behind the advocated use of the for i in xrange(...)-style looping constructs in Python? For simple integer looping, the difference in overheads is substantial. I conducted a simple test using two pieces of code:
File idiomatic.py:
#!/usr/bin/env python
M = 10000
N = 10000
if __name__ == "__main__":
x, y = 0, 0
for…
