[Tutor] Iterating over letters or arbitrary symbols like they were numbers...

[Kent Johnson]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:26 PM, Alexander Daychilde (Gmail)
<daychilde at gmail.com> wrote:

> exp_list = []
>
> exp_range = exp.split(":")
>
> min_padding = len(exp_range[0])
>
> for i in range(int(exp_range[0]),(int(exp_range[1])+1)):
>
>    exp_list.append('%0*d' % (min_padding, i))

This could be a little cleaner using tuple assignment to get rid of
the subscripting and list comprehension to get rid of the loop:

lower, upper = exp.split(':')
min_padding = len(lower)
exp_list = [ '%0*d' % (min_padding, i) for in in range(int(lower),
int(upper)+1) ]

Kent