BJörn Lindqvist wrote: >> I am quite new to Python, and have a straight & simple question. >> In C, there is for (init; cond; advance). We all know that. >> In Python there are two ways to loop over i=A..B (numerical.): >> 1) i = A >> while i<B: >> ...do something... >> i+=STEP > > This is indeed quite ugly. You rarely need such loops in Python and > with some thinking you can often translate the C-equivalent to > something more pythonic. As you guessed, your second problem is best > solved with a generator function - xrange(). It is completely equal to > range() except that it returns a generator instead of a list.
Slight terminology glitch -- it does return an iterator, not a generator. Generators are functions that return iterators. regards, Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
