[Tutor] trouble with function-- trying to check differences btwn 2 strings
Rikard Bosnjakovic
rikard.bosnjakovic at gmail.com
Tue Mar 6 00:41:23 CET 2007
On 3/6/07, zannah marsh <zannah.m at gmail.com> wrote:
> step through them as you would in an array or list. so i had this:
> for i in word1
> if word1[i] == word2[i]...
For this construction to work in Python, you use the range()-function.
for index in range(len(word1)):
....
Say word1 is "parrot", len(word1) == 6, range(len(word1)) = 0,1,2,3,4,5.
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- Rikard.
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