I know it's popular and very handy, but I'm curious if there are purists > out there who think that using something like: > > for x in range(10): > #do something 10 times > > is unPythonic. The reason I ask is because the structure of the for loop > seems to be for iterating through a sequence. It seems somewhat > artificial to use the for loop to do something a certain number of > times, like above. > > Anyone out there refuse to use it this way, or is it just impossible to > avoid?
IMHO it's perfectly okay to use it as you describe it. Maybe you can switch to xrange( ) which doesn't return a list but an iterator. Note that in python 3.0 xrange will cease to exist and range( ) will return an iterator instead. Cheers, Daniel -- http://www.cafepress.com/putitdown
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