Python’s syntax is simple, concise and user-friendly. It’s an interpreted language, meaning a third-party program called an interpreter translates the code from “human language” to ...

First, you can’t just transport straight C for loops into Python. There has to be some concession to Python syntax. The initial attempt was clever but not clever enough.

Python's saving grace can be found within the original premise above: all other things being equal, shorter code is more likely to be bug-free. When you combine Python's dynamic typing with its ...