On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 10:49, BJörn Lindqvist wrote:
> > I am quite new to Python, and have a straight & simple question.
> > In C, there is for (init; cond; advance). We all know that.
> > In Python there are two ways to loop over i=A..B (numerical.):
> > 1) i = A
> > while i<B:
> > ...do something...
> > i+=STEP
>
> This is indeed quite ugly. You rarely need such loops in Python and
> with some thinking you can often translate the C-equivalent to
> something more pythonic. As you guessed, your second problem is best
> solved with a generator function - xrange(). It is completely equal to
> range() except that it returns a generator instead of a list.
It seems I need constructs like this all of the time
i = 0
while i < len(somelist):
if oughta_pop_it(somelist[i]):
somelist.pop(i)
else:
i += 1
There has to be a better way...
Any thoughts?
James
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