Re: [Tutor] Silly loop question

2005-08-19 Thread mailing list
Hehe, Yah, I should've read the tutorial again, I do apologise, it was a 3 in the morning-coffee not working question. Regards, Liam Clarke On 8/17/05, Alan G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > changeIndex = None > > al = len(line) > > for i in range(al): > > And theres the problem. > Pythonpro

Re: [Tutor] Silly loop question

2005-08-16 Thread Alan G
> changeIndex = None > al = len(line) > for i in range(al): And theres the problem. Pythonprovides two loops, for is really a *foreach* so if you don't want to process *each* item - eg by jumping forward - then you really should use while and manage the index thataway. You can hack about with the

Re: [Tutor] Silly loop question

2005-08-16 Thread Kent Johnson
mailing list wrote: > Hi all, > > I should know this, but it seems to elude me at present. > > I have a loop which is looping through a line of chars by index. > > So, one of these - > > for i in range(len(line)): > > > Now, question is, is there a simple way to 'fast forward' index i?