On 09/23/12 18:52, Alec Taylor wrote: > You can always use a counter if you don't like our fancy for-each loops; > > foolist = [1,24,24,234,23,423,4] > for i in xrange(len(foolist)): > print foolist[i]
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~lignos/py_antipatterns.html The first one on the list of anti-patterns is doing exactly this. Just don't. Ewww. Inefficient, ugly, and harder to read. Part of learning to write in Python is, well, learning to write *Python*, not {C,C++,Java,PHP}-in-Python. -tkc -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list