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why no "do : until"?

Simon Brunning SBrunning at trisystems.co.uk
Fri Jan 5 11:21:26 EST 2001 
> From:	Tim Peters [SMTP:tim.one at home.com]
> A study I did at the time said that about 15% of all "for" loops in Python
> code were of the form
> 
>     for i in range(len(a)):
> 
> and that's both an obscure and inefficient way to spell the underlying
> idea.
 
Marc Lemburg's mxTools includes an indices function - indices(a) is
synonymous with range(len(a)).

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbrunning at trisystems.co.uk





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