What is the difference between range and xrange functions in Python 2.X?

Question

Apparently xrange is faster but I have no idea why it\'s faster (and no proof besides the anecdotal so far that it is faster) or what besides that is different about

Answer 1

Additionally, if do list(xrange(...)) will be equivalent to range(...).

So list is slow.

Also xrange really doesn't fully finish the sequence

So that's why its not a list, it's a xrange object