def get(numbers):
print 'Calling ', numbers
sleep(1)
print 'Connected '
sleep(1)
def call_numbers():
for i in range(9549355543, 9549355560):
numbers = i
get(numbers)
call_numbers()
Is there a technical name for a loop like this?
For loop? That is what I call it.
As usual I am not very clear, see how the call_numbers() for loop gets
passes to the get(numbers) to do something else, that is what I was
asking about.
That part is not considered a loop.
There is a type of programming paradigm called "recursion" that is
similar to loops, perhaps that's what you're thinking of?
def recursive_sum(num):
if num == 0:
return 0
else:
return num + recursive(num - 1)
>>> recursive_sum(15)
120
>>> sum(range(16))
120
However your example is not recursion, because the function does not
call itself repeatedly; rather, call_numbers is called once, and then it
repeatedly calls a _different_ function. Savvy the difference?
HTH,
-Luke
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