[Tutor] working with empty lists

[bob gailer]

  On 9/16/2010 12:05 AM, Rance Hall wrote:
> Im working on a little piece of test code to test an idea for a larger script.
>
> Here is what I've got so far:
>
> l = []
>
> for i in range(0,10)
>      l.append(i)
>
> for i in range(0,10)
>      print('%s. %s' % (i, l[i])
>
>
> This gives me:
>
> 0. 0
> 1. 1
> 2. 2 .... etc
>
> which is what I expect, but what I want is to get something like
>
> 0. 1
> 1. 2
> 2. 3 .....
>
> so that the output is clearly different on either side of the "."
>
> I tried changing the append to l.append(i+1)
>
> which almost worked but the output started with 1. 2  I was curious
> what happend to the 0. 1 line

It works for me (after adding : at the end of the for statements, and a 
parenthesis at the end of the print call).

 >>> l = []
 >>> for i in range(0,10)
...    l.append(i+1)
...
 >>> for i in range(0,10)
...    print('%s. %s' % (i, l[i]))
...
0. 1
1. 2
2. 3
3. 4

etc.

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