[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> I can try that.  Is using range(len(a)) a bad solution in the sense
> that its likely to create an unexpected error? Or because there is a
> more efficient way to accomplish the same thing?

for-in uses an internal index counter to fetch items from the sequence, so

     for item in seq:
         function(item)

is simply a shorter and more efficient way to write

     for item in range(len(seq)):
         function(seq[item])

also see this article:

     http://online.effbot.org/2006_11_01_archive.htm#for

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