On Jun 6, 3:18 pm, Neil Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since 'i' and 'j' are canonically loop indices, I find it > > totally confusing to use them to name the iteration variable - > > which is not an index. > > Certainly i and j are just as generic, but they have the > advantage over 'item' of being more terse.
Python programmers usually prefer readability over terseness. Finding a variable named 'i' that is not an integer index would be surprising to me. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
