[Python-ideas] Simpler syntax for basic iterations

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2015 at 6:59 PM, Emile van Sebille <emile at fenx.com> wrote:

> On 10/11/2015 2:47 PM, Luciano Ramalho wrote:
>
>> I've felt the same need Andre described, and so far I have not seen a
>> convincing argument against his proposal to accept this syntax:
>>
>> for n:  # repeat block n times
>>       fd(100)
>>       lt(360/n)
>>
>> Where n is any expression that evaluates to an integer.
>>
>
> Umm... https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0284/
>

Heh. "The whole point (15 years ago) of range() was to *avoid* needing
syntax to specify a loop over numbers." I guess I'm nothing if not
consistent. :-)

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--Guido van Rossum (python.org/~guido)
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