@ToolmakerSteve I disagree. I rarely use break in loops and when I encounter it in code that I maintain I find that the loop, most often, could have been written without it. The presented …

Jun 21, 2015 · Python 2.7.3 $ python -mtimeit 'while 0:pass' 100000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0132 usec per loop $ python -mtimeit 'while False:pass' 10000000 loops, best of 3: 0.0538 usec per …

Mar 20, 2012 · I actually tried the code find out if the function processInput takes little time, then for-loops actually performs better. However, if your function processInput takes a long time to …

Python Enhancement Proposal (PEP) 3136 suggested adding these to Python but Guido rejected it: However, I'm rejecting it on the basis that code so complicated to require this feature is very …

Sep 1, 2010 · For starters, if variables were local to loops, those loops would be useless for most real-world programming. In the current situation: # Sum the values 0..9 total = 0 for foo in …

I have a set of data that I load into python using a pandas dataframe. What I would like to do is create a loop that will print a plot for all the elements in their own frame, not all on one. My da...

Apr 11, 2011 · Our goal is to do one thing on every iteration and two things on every nth iteration. We are going through 100 iterations. m. Easy-to-understand attempt: Block A, minimal …

Every time I write a while loop where the variable that the condition checks is set inside the loop (so that you have to initialize that variable before the loop, like in your second example), it …

Dec 18, 2009 · I think the first S.Lott solution is the best, but there's another choice if you're using a pretty recent python (>= 2.6 I think, since izip_longest doesn't seem available before that …

In Python you generally have for in loops instead of general for loops like C/C++, but you can achieve the same thing with the following code. for k in range(1, c+1, 2): do something with k …