On 2012-08-06, Tom P <werot...@freent.dd> wrote: > On 08/06/2012 06:18 PM, Nobody wrote: >> On Mon, 06 Aug 2012 17:52:31 +0200, Tom P wrote: >> >>> consider a nested loop algorithm - >>> >>> for i in range(100): >>> for j in range(100): >>> do_something(i,j) >>> >>> Now, suppose I don't want to use i = 0 and j = 0 as initial values, but >>> some other values i = N and j = M, and I want to iterate through all >>> 10,000 values in sequence - is there a neat python-like way to this? >> >> for i in range(N,N+100): >> for j in range(M,M+100): >> do_something(i,j) >> >> Or did you mean something else? > > no, I meant something else .. > > j runs through range(M, 100) and then range(0,M), and i runs through > range(N,100) and then range(0,N)
In 2.x: for i in range(M,100)+range(0,M): for j in range(N,100)+range(0,N): do_something(i,j) Dunno if that still works in 3.x. I doubt it, since I think in 3.x range returns an iterator, not? -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! I wish I was on a at Cincinnati street corner gmail.com holding a clean dog! -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list