no side effects

[Mike Meyer]

Nagy László <nagylzs at freemail.hu> writes:

> Another explanation for a newbie would be this.
> 
> When comparing C++ (or other similar language) and Python for loop,
> the first thing I would mention is that in C++, a for loop is
> terminated by a condition
> 
> but in Python, there is no condition anyway.

Yes there is a condition. It's the end of the list. You can influence
that to get side effects:

l = [1, 2, 3]
for i in l:
   print i
   del l[1:]

will just print "1".

That said, I have *no* idea whether or not this behavior can be
depended upon.

        <mike
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