how to write a C-style for loop?

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Wed Feb 15 03:15:47 EST 2006


John Salerno <johnjsal at NOSPAMgmail.com> wrote:
>
>I assume this is the way for loops are written in C, but if it helps to 
>be specific, I'm referring to C# for loops. The Python for loop seems to 
>be the same (or similar) to C#'s foreach loop:
>
>foreach int i in X
>
>But how would you write a C# for loop in Python? Do you rework a while 
>loop, or use the range() function?
>
>Here's an example:
>
>for (int i = 0; i < 50; i += 5)
>
>How would that go in Python, in the simplest and most efficient way?

  for i in range(0,50,5):
      print i
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