[Tutor] Can you modify every nth item in a list with a single
assignment?
Jeff Shannon
jeff@ccvcorp.com
Thu Jun 12 20:14:02 2003
Bob Gailer wrote:
> What we need here is a new language feature that lets us provide a
> sequence of index values to a list. Something like:
>
> MyList[(1,4,9,23)] = MyList[(1,4,9,23)] + 43
This can be done easily enough without adding a new feature, it just
takes two lines instead of one:
for n in (1,4,9,23):
MyList[n] += 43
Jeff Shannon
Technician/Programmer
Credit International