In <mailman.668.1366126626.3114.python-l...@python.org> aaB <mecagonoisic...@gmail.com> writes:
> but when I do: > for i in rule: > print rule[i] > I get the "complement": > 1 > 1 > 1 > 1 > 0 > 1 > 1 > 1 When you iterate over a list with this statement: for i in rule: i contains each successive list item. However, your code: print rule[i] acts as though i is the list item's *subscript*, which is incorrect. In effect, your code is doing this: print rule[0] print rule[0] print rule[0] print rule[0] print rule[1] print rule[0] print rule[0] print rule[0] Although in your example both rule[0] and rule[1] are zero, so I don't know why '1' ever got printed. Also, as far as I can tell, this code should not have worked at all: for i in range(rule): print rule[i] The range() function expects an integer, not a list. -- John Gordon A is for Amy, who fell down the stairs gor...@panix.com B is for Basil, assaulted by bears -- Edward Gorey, "The Gashlycrumb Tinies" -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list