PEP 284, Integer for-loops
David Eppstein
eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Thu Mar 7 12:30:03 EST 2002
In article <B8ACE2AC.5F91%jonathan at onegoodidea.com>,
Jonathan Hogg <jonathan at onegoodidea.com> wrote:
> To a new programmer, teaching them
> that 'for' iterates over sequences and that 'range' makes sequences of
> integers is pretty easy (and yes, I used to teach).
That part is easy, yes. The harder part is explaining multi-parameter
versions of range. What I've been resorting to in order to avoid this
problem is rearranging all my integer loops to only use the
single-parameter version.
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