looking for a neat solution to a nested loop problem

[Ethan Furman]

Tom P wrote:
> consider a nested loop algorithm -
> 
> for i in range(100):
>     for j in range(100):
>         do_something(i,j)
> 
> Now, suppose I don't want to use i = 0 and j = 0 as initial values, but 
> some other values i = N and j = M, and I want to iterate through all 
> 10,000 values in sequence - is there a neat python-like way to this? I 
> realize I can do things like use a variable for k in range(10000): and 
> then derive values for i and j from k, but I'm wondering if there's 
> something less clunky.

for i in range(N, N+100):
     for j in range(M, M+100):
         do_something(i, j)


~Ethan~