[Tutor] Repeating an action

[F.Lee]

On 5/12/07, Alan Gilfoy <agilfoy at frontiernet.net> wrote:
> How do you 'tell' Python to repeat a certain action X amount of times,
> and then stop.
>
> I could use a 'counter' (see below), but that seems kind of clunky.
>
>
>
> counter = 0
> example = True
> while example:
>
>      print "Do something"
>      counter += 1
>
>      if counter == 100:
>      example = False
>
>
>
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Hi,

Have you considered a "for"  loop? It's quite a bit less "clunky":

for i in range(100)
   print "Do something"

HTH,

<Lee>