why I don't like range/xrange

[Roel Schroeven]

Bruno Desthuilliers schreef:
> stdazi a écrit :

>> for (i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++)
>>    i = 10;
> 
> for i in range(10):
>    i = 10
> 
> What's your point, exactly ?

In the first iteration, i is set equal to 10. Then, before starting the 
second iteration, i is incremented to 11; then the loop condition is 
checked and results in false. So the loop terminates after the first 
iteration.

So, the point is that in C you can influence the loop's behavior by 
modifying the loop variable, while you cannot do that in Python (at 
least not in a for-loop).

In other words, the point is that you can't translate loops literally 
from C to Python. Which is nothing new, and I fail to see how that is 
supposed to be a disadvantage.

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Roel Schroeven