--- Dan Bishop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Loop indices often have single-letter names > (typically i/j/k or x/ > y), or names that are the singular form of the list > name (e.g., "for > ballot in self._ballots"). For iterating over > files, I use "line". >
You are in good company with "i" and "line." They are among the 15 most used tokens in the Python standard library, which includes reserved words if, def, return, in, not, else, and for. 16610 self 7347 if 5222 def 4686 return 2818 None 2235 in 1799 not 1723 else 1637 name 1499 i 1226 os 1224 line 1203 for 1183 data 1181 path I sampled /usr/local/lib/python2.5 with tokenizer. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Got a little couch potato? Check out fun summer activities for kids. http://search.yahoo.com/search?fr=oni_on_mail&p=summer+activities+for+kids&cs=bz -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list