Simple exercise

[BartC]

On 11/03/2016 01:21, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 11/03/2016 00:05, BartC wrote:

>> def last(a):
>>      return a[-1]
>>
>> def init(a):                 # all except last element
>>      return a[0:len(a)-1]
>
> What is wrong with a[0:1] ?

The returns the head of the list. I need everything except the last 
element ('init' is from Haskell).

>> for i in range(len(names)):
>>      print (names[i],totals[i])
>>
>
> Always a code smell when range() and len() are combined.

Any other way of traversing two lists in parallel?

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Bartc