why i

[Ben Finney]

On Tue, 25 May 2004 08:10:51 +1000, mr_vocab wrote:
> i never got this its always in my tutial bookfor i in range(...)

"Index".  i.e., the variable will be the index of an array you want to
iterate over.

The usage of "i" was promulgated by the FORTRAN language, which allowed
only single-letter variable names (and was all upper case, too, so it
was actually I).  The FOR statement was commonly used to iterate over an
array, and I and J were the commonly used index variables for that
purpose.

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