[Python-Dev] A suggestion (original) (raw)

Steven D'Aprano steve at pearwood.info
Sat Jul 17 10:19:11 CEST 2010

On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 12:38:40 pm Brandon Hayden wrote:

In the Python language, or any other language for that matter, I have never understood why they don't have a loop function. Here's what I mean, every time someone wants something to repeat itself, they have to write a while loop like this:

x = 0 while x < 10: function() x = x + 1

Perhaps you should learn a little more Python before criticising it. The idiomatic way to write the above is:

for x in range(10): function()

Anyway, this is the wrong forum for this discussion. If you're still interested in it, please take it to comp.lang.python or tutor at python.org.

-- Steven D'Aprano

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