could use some help with this problem! (Posting On Python-List Prohibited)

Ben Bacarisse ben.usenet at bsb.me.uk
Tue Feb 20 19:59:23 EST 2018


Lawrence D’Oliveiro <lawrencedo99 at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday, February 21, 2018 at 3:10:25 AM UTC+13, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
>> You almost never /have/ to use nested loops.  Has the course got this
>> far without introducing the idea of a function?
>
> If you are using a function to avoid a nested loop, perhaps that’s not
> such a smart use of a function...

Agreed.  And yet it /might/ be a smart use of one.  Nothing about simply
avoiding a loop is sufficient to make the assessment.

-- 
Ben.



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