John Salerno wrote:
I know it's popular and very handy, but I'm curious if there are purists
out there who think that using something like:
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.
Anyone out there refuse to use it this way, or is it just impossible to
avoid?
Ok, I think most people are misunderstanding my question a little. I
probably should have said xrange instead of range, but the point of my
question remains the same:
Should a for loop be used simply to do something X number of times, or
should it strictly be used to step through an iterable object for the
purpose of processing the items in that object?
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