Just started Python today... first question
Posted: Tue Feb 01, 2022 3:39 am
Hi all, I was a VB6 programmer about 20 years ago. I'm trying to get back into the fun again. Things have changed a lot. At any rate, my first question is that I wrote an extremely basic first program and saved it to a .py file. The code is as follows:
When I executed it, the python console opened and it did exactly what I thought it would but I was shocked at how slow the loop ran. I mean the 150 lines printed in about 9 seconds. I had assumed that the loop would have been so lightning quick that I would not have even been able to see the lines rising on the screen. 20 years ago if I had done the same program in VB6 it would have been that lightning quick... so what gives? The computers now are waaaaay faster. I'm confused.
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for x in range(0, 150, 1):
print("All work and no play makes Jake a dull boy. ", end = "")When I executed it, the python console opened and it did exactly what I thought it would but I was shocked at how slow the loop ran. I mean the 150 lines printed in about 9 seconds. I had assumed that the loop would have been so lightning quick that I would not have even been able to see the lines rising on the screen. 20 years ago if I had done the same program in VB6 it would have been that lightning quick... so what gives? The computers now are waaaaay faster. I'm confused.