Esmail <ebo...@hotmail.com> writes: > for i in range(0, len(li)): > print li[i] > > Will this always be equivalent to > > > for i in li: > print i
Not the same--after the exit of the first loop, 'i' is the length of the list. After the exit of the second loop, 'i' is the last element. > Would the 2nd one be considered more Pythonic? (It looks both > clearer and cleaner to me). Yes. If you want to have the numeric index available in the loop, use: for i,x in enumerate(li): ... then i is the index and x is the element. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list