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[Fredrik Lundh]

Daley, MarkX <markx.daley at intel.com> wrote:
> This feels like a real newbie question, but here is the code that is
causing
> my question:
>
> # Learning exceptions
>
> def test():
>    a = [-5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>    print a
>    b = 5
>    for item in a:
>        try:
>            print b / a[item]
>        except ZeroDivisionError:
>            pass
>
> Here is the output of this code under IDLE:
>
> [-5, -4, -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
> 5
> 2
> 1
> 1
> 1
> -1
> -2
> -2
> -3
> -5
>
> Why is the list being processed in reverse?  The exception works fine, but
> the math is backwards.  I don't recall this happening before.

note that you divide by a[item], not by item.

try printing item and a[item] in the loop and see if you
can figure out what's going on...

(where did you find this script, btw?  "100 obfuscated
python scripts for beginners?" ;-)

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