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From: Dave Angel <davea@davea.name>
Subject: Re: Having both if() and for() statements in one liner
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2013 18:54:51 +0000 (UTC)
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On 17/9/2013 09:21, Ferrous Cranus wrote:


> I just want to say tot he program that
>
> that only run the for statement if and only if person=='George'
>
> I dont see nay reason as to why this fails
>
> perhaps like:
>
> for times in range(0, 5) if person=='George':
>
> but that fails too...
> there must be written on soem way.
>
>

untested:

for times in range(0, 5 if person=="George" else 0):

But i also greately prefer the canonical version.

-- 
DaveA