[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the reply.
I am trying to convert some C code to python and i was not sure what the equivalent python code would be.
I want to postdecrement the value in the while loop. Since i cannot use assignment in while statements is there any other way to do it in python?
Roughly speaking, if you have a loop in C like
while (n--) {
func(n);
}then the mechanical translation to Python would look like this:
while True:
n -= 1
if not n:
break
func(n)However, odds are fairly decent that a mechanical translation is not the best approach, and you may (as just one of many examples) be much better off with something more like:
for i in range(n)[::-1]:
func(n)The '[::-1]' iterates over the range in a reverse (decreasing) direction; this may or may not be necessary depending on the circumstances.
Jeff Shannon Technician/Programmer Credit International
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