Python is going to be hard

Seymore4Head Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid
Wed Sep 3 14:50:23 EDT 2014


On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 11:19:04 -0700, Rob Gaddi
<rgaddi at technologyhighland.invalid> wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 14:10:42 -0400
>Seymore4Head <Seymore4Head at Hotmail.invalid> wrote:
>
>> import math
>> import random
>> import sys
>> b=[]
>> steve = [1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89]
>> for x in steve:
>>     print (steve[x])
>> 
>> Traceback (most recent call last):
>>   File "C:\Functions\blank.py", line 7, in <module>
>>     print (steve[x])
>> IndexError: list index out of range
>
>You're failing to go through the basic tutorials, and blaming the
>language when you don't understand things.
>
>'for x in steve' does not sweep x over the indices of steve.  'for x in
>steve' sweeps x over the sequential _values_ in steve.  This would have
>been clear if you were to add a print(x) into the loop.

Yes print(x) does make that clear
Thanks



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