[Tutor] Returning a variable from a module

[Paul De Luca]

Thanks,
       I have used return before but until now have never really
understood what was going on. I tried it first, but I was returning the
config dictionary in the module, then referencing it directly just like
any other variable I had created in the main code. 
 
> for n in range(0, len(configList)):
>   configList[n] = string.rstrip(configList[n])
>   configList[n] = string.lstrip(configList[n])
>   configList[n] = string.replace(configList[n], '\012', '')
> 
>   Be...
> 
> for n in range(0, (len(configList)-1)):
> configList[n] = string.rstrip(configList[n])
> configList[n] = string.lstrip(configList[n])
> configList[n] = string.replace(configList[n], '\012', '')
> 
>   ??  Either that or I really am poor tonight :)
> 
>   HTH,
>   Glen.


No, range is up to, but not including the last 
argument. To quote the docs:

"To iterate over the indices of a sequence, combine range() and len() as
 follows: 

      >>> a = ['Mary', 'had', 'a', 'little', 'lamb']
      >>> for i in range(len(a)):
      ...     print i, a[i]
      ... 
      0 Mary
      1 had
      2 a
      3 little
      4 lamb"

I think we are both really poor tonight ;)