PEP 284, Integer for-loops

David Eppstein eppstein at ics.uci.edu
Wed Mar 6 18:35:06 EST 2002


In article <slrna8d8ej.utc.grey at teleute.dmiyu.org>,
 Steve Lamb <grey at despair.dmiyu.org> wrote:

> I fail to see how it is is greader readability or understanding when the
> current method is both.

I diagree that the current method has both, or either.  I don't know 
about you, but I find "for x in range(n-1,-1,-1)" to be a difficult to 
read and difficult to understand way of obfuscating a simple loop over 
the numbers 0 to n-1 in reverse order.  I think "for n > x >= 0" would 
be much simpler.



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