Range Operation pre-PEP

[Steve Holden]

"Roman Suzi" <rnd at onego.ru> wrote in ...
> On Wed, 9 May 2001, Rainer Deyke wrote:
>
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>
> right now FUNCTIONS and LISTS are needed to understand
> for loop. (Even recursion is "easier" with just FUNCTIONS
> to know ;-)
>
I would argue you could teach for loops by using existing lists without any
function usage at all, as in (for example):

for dir in sys.path:
    print dir

regards
 STeve