Nested for loop problem

[Don Low]

In article <3fad715f$0$58715$e4fe514c at news.xs4all.nl>, Irmen de Jong wrote:
> Don Low wrote:
>>>>>for x in range(2, 2):
>> 
>> ...     print x
>> ... 
>> 
>> Since x prints nothing, I guess x = NULL. If I try:
> 
> That's your misunderstanding. That loop does *nothing*,
> it doesn't enter the loop body. When you're looping over
> an empty sequence, the loop body is never entered.

OK, so python knows not to even bother going through the loop if the
range is []. 
> 
> (also, NULL is meaningless in Python. I think you meant
> None, right?)

Yes, as in range(2, 2) yields nothing. 

I have another question which I hope you can answer. If I do

2 % 2 in the python interpreter, the answer is 0, and yet 2 is a prime
number.

Thanks for your time,

Don
> 
> --Irmen
> 


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Thanks,

Don