Re: I'm missing something here...

From	Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Subject	Re: I'm missing something here...
Date	2016-01-12 08:24 +0000
Message-ID	<mailman.46.1452587275.13488.python-list@python.org> (permalink)
References	<569440EB.4090204@lucidity.plus.com> <20160112071322.GA12153@cskk.homeip.net>

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On 12/01/16 07:13, Cameron Simpson wrote:
> On 11Jan2016 23:55, Erik <python@lucidity.plus.com> wrote:
>> Is it complaining about that, or is it because the 'for' loop body
>> might be executed zero times?
>
> The former. Almost any loop _might_ be executed zero times. Compilers
> and linters etc should only complain if they can prove the loop is
> always executed zero times.

Sure, but Skip was thinking he'd found a bug - I was just raising the 
possibility that the bug could have been that the loop was (incorrectly) 
determined to be executed zero times for some reason.

E.

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