I would like some examples of how one does what is requested in some other
programming languages. I doubt there is much need of a shorter way to do
anything N times and throw away any return values.
Python has many ways to do just about anything. It has some features which
suggest a particular way that many accept as pythonic. If there was a need
to do something like:
repeat_n( times=6, funct=fun, moreargs=whatever)
then someone probably would have included it.
So, yes, a fairly short and often clear method is:
for _ in range(6): ...
And others have shown multiple ways to get something similar to what you
want. Want real clarity for exactly six times?
# Do this six times:
whatever()
whatever()
whatever()
whatever()
whatever()
whatever()
Heck, the above may even run faster without loop overhead.
Like Marco, it would be interesting to hear actual examples where it makes
sense to repeat something the same way N times. Many such examples do have
ways to do it trivially. I mean if you want to line up text and need N
copies of say an asterisk or space, you can often use something like
"*" * 5
And the techniques to repeat some function call N times with the arguments
varying each time, can be handled many other ways too including map
functions and comprehensions.
I am left wondering if this is not about the real world but simply an
academic exercise.
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Subject: Re: Most elegant way to do something N times
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> I encounter with cases like doing a function 6 time with no argument,
> or same arguments over and over or doing some structral thing N times
> and I dont know how elegant I can express that to the code.
>
??? Excuse me, but why you needed to call the same function SIX times? This
seems to me not elegant in primis.
Can you give us a practical example?
On Sun, 22 Dec 2019 at 21:38, Batuhan Taskaya <isidenti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I encounter with cases like doing a function 6 time with no argument,
> or same arguments over and over or doing some structral thing N times
> and I dont know how elegant I can express that to the code. I dont
> know why but I dont like this for _ in range(n): do() thing. Any
suggestions?
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