How do you convert a c-style for loop into python?
for (int i = m; i >= lowest; i--)
The best that I came up with was:
i = mid
for i in range(i, low,-1):
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for i in range(m, low - 1, -1):
Keep in mind range is exclusive of the stop parameter.
range(...)
range(stop) -> list of integers
range(start, stop[, step]) -> list of integers
The difference between this code and the C code is that in Python 2, a list is being constructed in memory by range so for very huge ranges this could be a problem. Replacing range with xrange would not build a list in memory and make the code practically the same. In Python 3 this issue no longer exists.
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m from where the loop start.
l where the loop stop, and range exclude last item so l-1 and
-1 for reverse array.
for i in range(m, l-1, -1):
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m = 20
low = 10
for i in range(m, low - 1, -1):
print i
This will count down as expected:
20
19
18
17
16
15
14
13
12
11
10
range takes three parameters, a start, a stop and the increment between each step.
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Where possible, the Python idiom is to loop over the items directly, not to count through them. Therefore an idiomatic way to count down would be for item in reversed(list): print item or to take a reversed slice >>> someList[m:lowest-1:-1]
If you are looping over items and also need a counter, Python has enumerate() to generate counting index numbers while looping. for index, value in enumerate(someList):
It's not always possible to do this, sometimes you are counting and not going over any other data except the numbers, and range() is fine - as the other answers suggest. But when you have a for (int i=... loop, see if you can change it to act directly on the data. Writing "C in Python" is no fun for anyone.
