Re: Complete beginner, any help appreciated :) - For Loops

2011-12-01 Thread Kyle T. Jones
On 12/1/11 4:53 AM, Mark wrote: Hi there, I'm a complete beginner to Python and, aside from HTML and CSS, to coding in general. I've spent a few hours on it and think I understand most of the syntax. However, I'm wondering a bit about For Loops. I know that the basic syntax for them is to def

Re: Complete beginner, any help appreciated :) - For Loops

2011-12-01 Thread Ben Finney
Mark writes: > I'm a complete beginner to Python and, aside from HTML and CSS, to > coding in general. I've spent a few hours on it and think I understand > most of the syntax. Welcome! You should work your way through the Python tutorial, from beginning to end http://docs.python.org/tutorial/>

Re: Complete beginner, any help appreciated :) - For Loops

2011-12-01 Thread Mark
Thanks a lot for the answers everyone, I really appreciate you getting back to me so quickly. I think that I understand where I am with this now :) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Complete beginner, any help appreciated :) - For Loops

2011-12-01 Thread Dave Angel
On 12/01/2011 06:32 AM, Pedro Henrique G. Souto wrote: On 01/12/2011 08:53, Mark wrote: Hi there, I'm a complete beginner to Python and, aside from HTML and CSS, to coding in general. I've spent a few hours on it and think I understand most of the syntax. However, I'm wondering a bit about

Re: Complete beginner, any help appreciated :) - For Loops

2011-12-01 Thread Pedro Henrique G. Souto
On 01/12/2011 08:53, Mark wrote: Hi there, I'm a complete beginner to Python and, aside from HTML and CSS, to coding in general. I've spent a few hours on it and think I understand most of the syntax. However, I'm wondering a bit about For Loops. I know that the basic syntax for them is to d

Re: Complete beginner, any help appreciated :) - For Loops

2011-12-01 Thread Laurent Claessens
for x in y However, what does "for" and "in" mean in this context? It means basically the same as in Englsish Does the following links answer the question ? http://www.ibiblio.org/g2swap/byteofpython/read/for-loop.html http://dsnra.jpl.nasa.gov/software/Python/diveintopython.pdf (page 58) H