Little novice program written in Python

[Rogério Brito]

On 04/25/2008 05:00 AM, John Machin wrote:
> On Apr 25, 5:44 pm, Robert Bossy <Robert.Bo... at jouy.inra.fr> wrote:
>> 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.

Yes, despite the asymptotic consumption of memory being the same, the practical 
one is also a concern. And in my original version of that loop (sketched in 
paper) was a for loop, but with C syntax.

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