for loop counting backward?

[Jegenye 2001 Bt]

for i in xrange(100,2,-1):
    do_something()

Mind the "fence rule" in Pythonic slices, i.e. xrange

Regards,
 Miklós

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Eric Wichterich <eric.wichterich at gmx.de> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I am converting a perl-script to python and have problems with this
> simple perl-statement:
>
> for ( $i = 100; $i > 2; $i-- ) {do something }
>
> Does anyone know how to write this in python? I did not find any
> documentation about counting backward in a for loop...
>
> By the way:
> I converted following perl - statement:
>
> for $i ( 2 .. 100 ) { do something}
>
> into python:
>
> for counter in range(2,100)
> do something
>
> Thank you very much,
> Eric
>
>