[Tutor] Question related to for loops

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Mar 19 19:27:05 EDT 2021


On 19/03/2021 21:54, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	Besides the fact that it processes the input list TWICE, once each for
> odd and even values, I think you meant for
> 
> 	i for i in x if 
> 
> to be
> 
> 	1 for i in x if 
> 
> 	You want a count of how many even/odd entries there are, not a sum 

According to his original post he does actually want the sum.
It's an odd request but its what both of his examples generate.

And he specifically said:

>>> consider a problem of finding sum of even and odd numbers
>>> inside a list..


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