On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:42:20 +1100, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
>Lada Kugis <lada.ku...@gmail.com> writes: > >> in python for example: >> for i in range(1,n) >> goes from 1,2,3,4,...,n-1 >> (that is, it goes from 1 up to, but not including n) > >Also, ?range(n)? counts from 0 to n-1. > >> Why is that so ? > >The answer is in the documentation for ?range?: > > For example, range(4) returns [0, 1, 2, 3]. The end point is > omitted! These are exactly the valid indices for a list of 4 > elements. Yes, but why didn't they start indexing from 1 then, like fortran for example ? It would solve for [1,2,3,4] length of list (just returns the last indice, in this case 4), "up to and including" problem, ... Lada > >You may be interested in the iterator-generating functions in >?itertools? <URL:http://docs.python.org/library/itertools>. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
