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Subject: Re: semicolon at end of python's statements
Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 17:24:31 -0400
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On Mon, 02 Sep 2013 19:44:33 +0200, "albert visser"
<albert.visser@gmail.com> declaimed the following:


>Coming back to my first association mentioned above, why not use a comma?
>
>for <identifier> in <iterable>, <condition>:
>     <stuff>
>

	Because the comma turns that into a tuple consisting of your iterable
and your condition...

>>> for i in 1, 3, 5, 4:
... 	print i
... 	
1
3
5
4
>>> 

>>> x = 1
>>> i = 3
>>> for i in xrange(3), x<i:
... 	print i
... 	
xrange(3)
True
>>> 
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