why no "do : until"?

Aahz Maruch aahz at panix.com
Tue Jan 9 02:46:33 EST 2001


In article <6fz66.4202$AH6.740364 at newsc.telia.net>,
Fredrik Lundh <fredrik at effbot.org> wrote:
>
>    i = 0
>    for x in a:
>        ...
>        i += 1
>
>(like Aahz, I prefer the second variant.  it's slightly faster on
>large sequences, and doesn't depend on len(a) returning the
>right thing)

It's also guaranteed to consume no extra memory beyond that needed to
store x and i (and the already-allocated a).
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