problems with a for loop (noobie)
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
shalehperry at attbi.com
Sat Jul 6 15:54:38 EDT 2002
On 06-Jul-2002 Charles Mantha wrote:
>
>> > ps : and for some reason, the output is not the same as in the tutorial
>>> when
>> > I try this.
>>
>> This is kind of hard to explain if we don't see the output that you saw.
>> Are you certain you typed it exactly as it appeared in the tutorial
>> (including indentation)?
>
> This is what I get :
>
> for n in range(2, 10):
> for x in range(2, n):
> if n % x == 0:
> print n, 'equals', x, '*', n/x
> break
> else:
> # loop fell through without finding a factor
> print n, 'is a prime number'
>
the 'else' belongs to the 'for' not the 'if'.
Observe:
>>> for i in (1,2,3):
... print i
... else:
... print "finished"
...
1
2
3
finished
the else is reached when the for finishes UNLESS a break was used to stop the
for loop early.
More information about the Python-list
mailing list