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Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 13:52:35 +0100
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On 2013-09-17 13:02, Ferrous Cranus wrote:
> o want to avoid having to type somehting like this:
>
> if person="George":
>      times in range(0, 5):
>
>
> Why it gives me an error when i'm trying to write it like this:
>
>
> if person="George" for times in range(0, 5):
>
> Can't i ahve both if and for in a one liner?

Not in Python, no.

-- 
Robert Kern

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