RE: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 | 7.3 The for statement

2005-03-20 Thread Andrew Koenig
> for_stmt ::= "for" target_list "in" expression_list > [ "and" expression ] ":" > suite ["else" ":" suite] It can't work. The expression_list could be just a variable, as could the expression, in which case you get "for" target_list "in" variable "and" variable ":" and, of course

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 | 7.3 The for statement

2005-03-19 Thread Aahz
On Sun, Mar 20, 2005, Juan Carlos Rodrigo Garcia wrote: > > Hi My name is Juan Carlos Rodrigo, and I love Python. It is the most > impressive and usefull language that I have ever seen. Glad to hear that! However, your post is off-topic for python-dev; you'll have a better discussion posting to

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 | 7.3 The for statement

2005-03-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
Juan Carlos Rodrigo wrote: Interesting idea, but not really needed given the existence of the break statement: Goto = break I'm not interested. All non-sequential control structures are merely constrained ways of using goto (the underlying machine code will devolve into conditional and unconditio

Re: [Python-Dev] Python 2.4 | 7.3 The for statement

2005-03-19 Thread Nick Coghlan
Juan Carlos Rodrigo Garcia wrote: It is easier if we see it beforehand: - leave = False alist = [1,2,3,3,4,5,6,7,8,9] for item in alist and not leave: if item is 1: leave = True Interesting idea, but not really needed given the existence of the break statemen

[Python-Dev] Python 2.4 | 7.3 The for statement

2005-03-19 Thread Juan Carlos Rodrigo Garcia
Hi My name is Juan Carlos Rodrigo, and I love Python. It is the most impressive and usefull language that I have ever seen. I am studing, at http://www.uoc.edu, an Information Technology Postgraduate. And I have programmed some REXX applications in my past Jobs (So I love python, no more ENDS