Range Operation pre-PEP

[Roman Suzi]

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Fredrik Lundh wrote:

> Roman Suzi wrote:
> > Please, recall the main reason for the new feature:
> >
> > - to allow beginners learn loops BEFORE they learn
> > lists and functions (which are needed now to explain
> > for-loop).
> >
> > Even recursion could be explained without lists in Python,
> > why for-loops need this prerequisite?
> 
> done much python training lately, or are you just making

Yes. I taught programming classes a year ago. 
That is where I had some trouble with for-loops.

> things up as you go?
> 
> (in my experience, you don't have to understand much
> about functions and lists to learn how to *use* range in
> simple for-in loops...)
> 
> Cheers /F


Sincerely yours, Roman A.Suzi
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