"XLiIV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On May 11, 4:19 am, John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know it's popular and very handy, but I'm curious if there are purists > out there who think that using something like: > > for x in range(10): > #do something 10 times > > is unPythonic. The reason I ask is because the structure of the for loop > seems to be for iterating through a sequence. It seems somewhat > artificial to use the for loop to do something a certain number of > times, like above. > > Anyone out there refuse to use it this way, or is it just impossible to > avoid?
|The range() function returns a list and list is a sequence, isn't? yes, for loops iterate thru any iterable -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
