[Tutor] for loop

[Alan Gauld]

"Sean Novak" <snovak at snovak.com> wrote

> I would normally write this in PHP like this:
>
> for($i=1; i< count($someArray); $i++)
> {
> print $someArray[i]
> }
>
> essentially,, I want to loop through an array skipping 
> "someArray[0]"

for i,n in enumerate(myArray):
     if i == 0: continue
     print n

is how I'd do it.

> but in python the for syntax is more like foreach in PHP..

Indeed it is exactly like a foreach. I wish it were called foreach
except that its more typing. But it would save much confusion
among newbies!

>  count = 0
>  for i in range(1,10):
>      if count == 0:
               count += 1
>             continue
>       else:
>             print i

Should work


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