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cs_lang:python:things-to-know:lazy-vs-eager [2013/01/23 14:52] – cedriccs_lang:python:things-to-know:lazy-vs-eager [2013/01/23 15:01] (current) – cedric
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 ====== Lazy vs Eager evaluation ====== ====== Lazy vs Eager evaluation ======
  
-Python generally uses a eager evaluation (in contrary to Haskell).+Python generally uses an eager evaluation (in contrary to [[cs_lang:haskell|Haskell]]) but for example with Python 3 the range() function returns a special range object which computes elements of the list on demand.
  
 <code python> <code python>
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 </code> </code>
  
-This was not the case with Python 2:+This was not the case with Python 2 (without iterators):
 <code python> <code python>
 >>> r = range(10) >>> r = range(10)
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 3 3
 </code> </code>
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 +Lazy evaluation saves execution time for large ranges.
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