PEP 284, Integer for-loops

[phil hunt]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 11:31:16 -0800, James_Althoff at i2.com <James_Althoff at i2.com> wrote:
>
>One of your 3rd party components is a table.  It has a basic access
>protocol via methods like this:
>    def getRowCount(): pass
>    def getColumnCount(): pass
>    def getValueAt(rowIndex,columnIndex): pass
>    def setValueAt(rowIndex,columnIndex): pass
>
>[...]
>Perhaps you could give some ideas on approaches that would be more
>"Pythonic"?

How about:

def rowKeys(table):
   return xrange(0, table.getRowCount())

def someFunction():
   for r in rowKeys(someTable):
      #...iterate over all the rows in (someTable)

Note that this is less cumbersome than your chosen:

   for r in someTable.getRowCount():
      #...iterate...




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