On 24/09/2015 13:50, paul.hermeneu...@gmail.com wrote:
> A lot of our in base weird python comes from heavily C-wired people:
>
> The classic
> for i in range(len(alist)):
> print alist[i]
>
> with its twin brother
>
> i=0
> while i < len(alist):
> print alist[i]
> i += 1
>
> And the even more annoying
>
> result = Result()
> getResult(result)
>
> JM
Please follow up with good ways to write these. I hear that creating one
really good way is a Python maxim.
for item in alist:
print(item)
If you *think* you need the index:-
for i, item in enumerate(alist):
print(i, item)
`i` defaults to 0, but there is a `start` keyword argument that lets you
set it to anything you like.
Better IMHO is to see what the itertools module[1] offers, either
directly or through recipes. The latter are available on pypi as
more-itertools[2].
[1] https://docs.python.org/3/library/itertools.html
[2] https://pypi.python.org/pypi/more-itertools/
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