Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Wed, 05 Apr 2006 16:15:12 +0200, Georg Brandl wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> hi John, >>> Python doesn't provide for loop like C / C++ but using Range() or >>> Xrange() you can achive all the functionalities of the C for loop. >> >> Not quite. > > Care to explain what the differences are, or shall we guess?
C's for is much more powerful. for(a; b; c) { d } translates to a while b d c which can't be replaced by a simple for i in range(...) Georg -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list