Derek Basch wrote: > Fredrik Lundh wrote: >>(the real question here is of course why you need the counter. what's >>the loop doing? if the code you posted is all you have, you can replace >>it with index = sum(len(animal) for animal in zoo), but I assume you want >>to do more stuff in there...) >> >></F> > > > Yes, I am doing more. Your example assumes that all that animals have > the same amount of colors.
No, it doesn't. Fredrik wrote index = sum(len(animal) for animal in zoo) The expression (len(animal) for animal in zoo) yields a sequence of the lengths of the individual animals; passing this to sum() gives the total count. Kent -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
