On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 8:52:52 AM UTC+12, BartC wrote: > One major objection was that C's 'for' isn't really a for-statement at > all (as it is understood in most other languages that haven't just > copied C's version), but is closer to a 'while' statement.
Apart from having local loop variables that get initialized just once. Not something you can fake with a “while” statement. That’s what makes C’s for-statement so versatile. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list