For Counter Variable
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Sun Sep 23 20:05:23 EDT 2012
On 09/23/12 18:52, Alec Taylor wrote:
> You can always use a counter if you don't like our fancy for-each loops;
>
> foolist = [1,24,24,234,23,423,4]
> for i in xrange(len(foolist)):
> print foolist[i]
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~lignos/py_antipatterns.html
The first one on the list of anti-patterns is doing exactly this.
Just don't. Ewww. Inefficient, ugly, and harder to read.
Part of learning to write in Python is, well, learning to write
*Python*, not {C,C++,Java,PHP}-in-Python.
-tkc
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