iters on ints? (reducing the need for range/xrange)

Toby Dickenson tdickenson at devmail.geminidataloggers.co.uk
Mon Nov 12 07:29:21 EST 2001


Paul Rubin <phr-n2001d at nightsong.com> wrote:

>"Tim Peters" <tim.one at home.com> writes:
>> > for i in 10:
>> >     doSomething(i)
>> >...
>> This isn't even half as disgusting as most people will say it is <wink>.  I
>> rather like it!  Write a PEP.
>
>The trouble is as someone else noted, "for i in 10" replaces "for i in
>range(10)".  But how do you handle range(1,10)?  "for i in 1,10" does
>precisely the wrong thing.

for i in 10-1:

;-)



Toby Dickenson
tdickenson at geminidataloggers.com



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