János Juhász wrote:
> Dear Tutors!
> 
> I know a python list is a mutable object.
>>>> array = [1,2,3,4,5]
> 
> So I can modify any item in it.
>>>> for index in range(len(array)): array[index] *= 2
> ... 
>>>> array
> [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
> 
> So I typed this:
>>>> for item in array: item *= 2
> ... 
>>>> array
> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

You usually don't do things like that in python as far as I know.

You just work on a generated modified list.

foo = range(1,6)
for i in [x*2 for x in foo]:
   do_whatever_you_want_with(i)


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~noufal
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