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On 24/09/2012 01:05, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 09/23/12 18:52, Alec Taylor wrote:
>> You can always use a counter if you don't like our fancy for-each loops;
>>
>> foolist = [1,24,24,234,23,423,4]
>> for i in xrange(len(foolist)):
>>      print foolist[i]
>
> http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~lignos/py_antipatterns.html
>
> The first one on the list of anti-patterns is doing exactly this.
> Just don't.  Ewww.  Inefficient, ugly, and harder to read.
>
> Part of learning to write in Python is, well, learning to write
> *Python*, not {C,C++,Java,PHP}-in-Python.
>
> -tkc
>

Maybe my mind is rather more warped than I thought it was, but my first 
impression was that foolist was a play on foolish.

I also like the anti-pattern on the link namely:-

for (index, value) in enumerate(alist):
     print index, value

Fancy wasting time, money and effort typing those unnecessary round 
brackets.

-- 
Cheers.

Mark Lawrence.