On Wednesday, June 29, 2016 at 1:30:04 AM UTC+12, BartC wrote: > I don't know if that helps; I've never heard of an induction variable.
Perhaps it’s just a computability-theoretic way of saying “a variable whose value each time round the loop is a function of its value on the previous iteration”. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list