On 5/12/07, Alan Gilfoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you 'tell' Python to repeat a certain action X amount of times, > and then stop. > > I could use a 'counter' (see below), but that seems kind of clunky. > > > > counter = 0 > example = True > while example: > > print "Do something" > counter += 1 > > if counter == 100: > example = False > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >
Hi, Have you considered a "for" loop? It's quite a bit less "clunky": for i in range(100) print "Do something" HTH, <Lee> _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor