Alternative to standard C "for"

[Georg Brandl]

BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
>> I am quite new to Python, and have a straight & simple question.
>> In C, there is for (init; cond; advance). We all know that.
>> In Python there are two ways to loop over i=A..B (numerical.):
>> 1) i = A
>>    while i<B:
>>       ...do something...
>>       i+=STEP
> 
> This is indeed quite ugly. You rarely need such loops in Python and
> with some thinking you can often translate the C-equivalent to
> something more pythonic. As you guessed, your second problem is best
> solved with a generator function - xrange(). It is completely equal to
> range() except that it returns a generator instead of a list.

Slight terminology glitch -- it does return an iterator, not a
generator. Generators are functions that return iterators.

regards,
Georg