On May 11, 12:38 am, Paul Rubin <http://[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Salerno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > for x in range(10): > > #do something 10 times > > > is unPythonic. The reason I ask is because the structure of the for loop > > seems to be for iterating through a sequence. It seems somewhat > > artificial to use the for loop to do something a certain number of > > times, like above. > > It is pretty natural in imperative-style code. The one thing I'd do > differently is use xrange instead of range, to avoid creating a > 10-element list in memory before starting the loop.
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