[Tutor] for: how to skip items

Andreas Perstinger andipersti at gmail.com
Mon Feb 17 17:35:37 CET 2014


Gabriele Brambilla <gb.gabrielebrambilla at gmail.com> wrote:
>it's because my problem is not so simple:
>imagine that in a100 contains not integer sorted in a good way but a
>random float numbers.
>How could I display only one item every 10?

You can provide a step size if you slice a list:

>>> l = list(range(10))
>>> l[0:10:2]
[0, 2, 4, 6, 8]
>>> l[0:10:5]
[0, 5]

Is that what you want?

Bye, Andreas



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