On 16 Aug, 14:57, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > Well, the alternative would be to have two keywords for looping: one > for your "simple" incrementing integer loop, and another for a loop that > operates over the elements of some collection type.
A compiler could easily recognise a statement like for i in range(n): as a simple integer loop. In fact, Cython is able to do this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list