splitting tables

[Skip Montanaro]

    robsom> ... I (still) don't like the "for in range()" way to build
    robsom> loops.

That's needed only when you need a numeric index.  Much of the time you can
just iterate over a container object:

    for element in mylist:
        print element

or

    for key in mydict:
        print (key, mydict[key])

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