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Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2012 13:30:09 -0800
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On 17 Nov 2012 17:47:58 GMT
Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:

> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 09:25:02 -0800, rh wrote:
> 
> > Is it for or range that is executed 8000 times when I for i in
> > range(3,8000,2):
> 
> I'm sorry, I don't understand that question.
> 
> Is it for what? What "it" are you talking about?
> 
> If you run the code:
> 
> for i in range(3, 8000, 2):
>     pass
> 
> the `for` statement executes once, giving 3999 iterations in total. 
> `range` gets executed once. Nothing is executed 8000 times.

I provided further info in another reply on this same thread.

But for sake of clarity and correctness here is what module trace
shows for a single pass:
 4000: for i in range(3,8000,2):
 3999:     pass