[Tutor] trivial simple program..can it be made more concise?

steve10brink at comcast.net steve10brink at comcast.net
Sat Feb 14 04:17:28 CET 2015


Hi all, 

I was playing with Python tonight and created a simple program that outputs numbers counting up then counting down all on the same terminal line. The code is as follows: 



#------------------------------------------------------------ 
a = 320000 #number to count up to 


for i in range (a): 
print i, '\r', 

for i in range ((a-1),0,-1): 
print i, '\r', 

#------------------------------------------------------------ 




It works as desired. However, I was trying to figure out a way to make it more concise but 

cannot see a way since the 'range' parameters must be integers (no functions allowed?). 




Anyone see a way to simplify it? 




Thanks, 

Steve 




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