Is using range() in for loops really Pythonic?

[Roel Schroeven]

John Salerno schreef:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> 
>> John Salerno <johnjsal at gmailNOSPAM.com> writes:
>>
>>> num = 33
>>>
>>> for x in xrange(10):
>>>     print num += 1
>> Which is better done by 'num += 10'.
>>
>> Can you come up with an example that isn't trivially replaced with
>> clearer code? That might make it clearer what your concern is.
> 
> ::sigh:: No, unfortunately I don't have a strong enough grasp of Python
> to give a really in-depth example. I understand what you're asking
> though. Perhaps people don't use this idiom as much as I think they do,
> so to give a trivial example to support my point isn't helpful.

Perhaps a function to print some text a number of times:

def print_n(text, n):
   for i in xrange(n):
     print text

(Though I guess you can replace that with print '\n'.join(msg * n) )

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Roel Schroeven