From: Mark Lawrence <breamore...@gmail.com> On 25/06/18 10:10, Alister via Python-list wrote: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2018 11:36:25 +0400, Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer wrote: > >> i think he means like for a loop to iterate over a list you might do >> >> list = [1,2,3] >> for i in range(len(list)): >> print(list[i]) >> >> >> but the you might as well go for the simpler : >> >> >> for elem in list: >> >> print(elem) >> >> Abdur-Rahmaan Janhangeer https://github.com/Abdur-rahmaanJ >> >> >> > > for i in range(len(list)): is a python anti-pattern it is almost a 100% > guarantee that you are doing something wrong* > > *as with all rules of thumb there is probably at least 1 exception that > the python experts will now point out. > >
The exception is that if you really do need the index, you write:- for i, elem in enumerate(list): -- My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask what you can do for our language. Mark Lawrence --- BBBS/Li6 v4.10 Toy-3 * Origin: Prism bbs (1:261/38) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
