On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 19:38:29 -0700, Raymond Hettinger wrote: > Executive summary: Python's for-loops are both elegant and fast. It > is a mistake to habitually avoid them.
And frequently much more readable and maintainable than the alternatives. I cringe when I see well-meaning people trying to turn Python into Perl, by changing perfectly good, fast, readable pieces of code into obfuscated one-liners simply out of some perverse desire to optimize for the sake of optimization. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
