On Sun, May 3, 2015 at 8:32 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > scripting > languages often lack a C-style for-loop, using a foreach loop instead. E.g. > I believe the canonical way to loop in bash is something like: > > for $i in `seq start stop` do ... > > (by memory).
Newer versions of bash have grown an alternative syntax for that common case, but if you need to support older forms, or other shells, then yes, it's something like that. Maybe without the dollar sign. (I can never remember the exact syntax, and I know bash is really finicky about where you put newlines and where you don't, but it looks something like what you had.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
