Newbie: conventional instead of recursive way

[Anton Vredegoor]

On 20 Dec 2002 10:55:40 GMT, Igor Zivkovic <izivkov1 at jagor.srce.hr>
wrote:

>def printList(List):
>    L = List[:]
>    while L:
>        if type(L[0]) == list:
>            tmp = L[:1]
>            del L[0]
>            for i in range(1, len(tmp[0]) + 1):
>                L.insert(0, tmp[0][-i])
>        else:
>            print L[0],
>            del L[0]

It took me some time to find out what this function does. After some
refactoring it seems to do this:

def printList1(L):
    R = L[:]
    while R:
        x = R.pop(0)
        if type(x) == list:
            R = x + R
        else:
            print x,

Regards,
		Anton