why I don't like range/xrange

[Bruno Desthuilliers]

Roel Schroeven a écrit :
> Bruno Desthuilliers schreef:
> 
>> stdazi a écrit :
> 
> 
>>> for (i = 0 ; i < 10 ; i++)
>>>    i = 10;
>>
>>
>> for i in range(10):
>>    i = 10
>>
>> What's your point, exactly ?
> 
> 
> In the first iteration, i is set equal to 10. Then, before starting the 
> second iteration, i is incremented to 11; then the loop condition is 
> checked and results in false. So the loop terminates after the first 
> iteration.

oops - my bad. But why would one do so when a break would do the trick:
for i in range(10):
   break

> 
> So, the point is that in C you can influence the loop's behavior by 
> modifying the loop variable, while you cannot do that in Python (at 
> least not in a for-loop).

A good thing IMHO.

> In other words, the point is that you can't translate loops literally 
> from C to Python. Which is nothing new, and I fail to see how that is 
> supposed to be a disadvantage.
> 
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