----- Original Message ----- From: "Kevin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 12:35 AM Subject: [Tutor] printing out a box of O's > there a better way to do > this: > > j = 'O' > for i in j*10: > print i * 100
Its not bad, but the for loop could be 'simplified' to: for i in range(10): print j*100 its not any shorter and probably doesn't run much faster but its a lot more readable because its the conventional Python idiom for coding fixed length loops. Alan G. _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
