Little novice program written in Python

[John Machin]

On Apr 25, 5:44 pm, Robert Bossy <Robert.Bo... at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
> Peter Otten wrote:
> > Rogério Brito wrote:
>
> >> i = 2
> >> while i <= n:
> >>      if a[i] != 0:
> >>         print a[i]
> >>      i += 1
>
> > You can spell this as a for-loop:
>
> > for p in a:
> >     if p:
> >         print p
>
> > It isn't exactly equivalent, but gives the same output as we know that a[0]
> > and a[1] are also 0.
>
> If the OP insists in not examining a[0] and a[1], this will do exactly
> the same as the while version:
>
> for p in a[2:]:
>     if p:
>         print p
>

... at the cost of almost doubling the amount of memory required.