no side effects

[Chad Netzer]

On Wednesday 08 January 2003 14:36, Nagy László wrote:
> Another explanation for a newbie would be this.
>
> When comparing C++ (or other similar language) and Python for loop,
> the first thing I would mention is that in C++, a for loop is terminated
> by a condition
> but in Python, there is no condition anyway.

And furthermore, Python can loop over arbitrary objects.  So as a thought 
experiment, how would one expect these to work (assuming you were from the C 
mindset)?

for i in ["a","b","c"]:
   print i,
   i = 3

or

for i in "abc":
   print i,
   i = 3

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Chad Netzer
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