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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 01:43:06 +1000
Subject: Re: a couple of things I don't understand wrt lists
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Apr 17, 2013 at 1:37 AM, aaB <mecagonoisician@gmail.com> wrote:
> but when I do:
>
> for i in rule:
>   print rule[i]

When you iterate over rule, you don't iterate over the indices, but
over the values themselves. Try this:

for i in rule:
    print i

Incidentally, "for i in range(rule)" isn't actually going to work;
what you would have used is "for i in range(len(rule))". Be careful
with that sort of thing; it's usually safest to actually copy and
paste from an interactive session, rather than reconstruct manually.
Sometimes it's not obvious whether it was a copy/paste problem or the
cause of your underlying confusion.

ChrisA