On Wed, 12 Dec 2007 09:46:09 -0600, Chris Mellon wrote: > I agree that it's fundamental, but I'd like to mention that I've > written > many thousands of lines of Python code, from throwaway code for > demonstration to enterprisey servers and all sorts of things in > between > and I've *never* written a "1 or more times" loop except when I was > demonstrating that exact thing. One thing that Python has definitely > changed my thinking about is that I tend to formulate both problems > and > solutions in terms of iteration over sequence rather than as > traditional > conditional based looping. If I need a "1 or more" loop I formulate > the > problem as a sequence of 1 or more elements.
How would you code an integrator-loop to stop when its error goes below some limit with iterations? While loops are as far as I can tell essential for a number of problems in math and physics. Cheers TG -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
