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| From | BartC <bc@freeuk.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Subject | Re: Simple exercise |
| Date | 2016-03-11 01:45 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <nbt7qr$4fa$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <mailman.117.1457600573.15725.python-list@python.org> <nbt1vd$k00$1@dont-email.me> <mailman.163.1457659326.15725.python-list@python.org> |
On 11/03/2016 01:21, Mark Lawrence wrote:
> On 11/03/2016 00:05, BartC wrote:
>> def last(a):
>> return a[-1]
>>
>> def init(a): # all except last element
>> return a[0:len(a)-1]
>
> What is wrong with a[0:1] ?
The returns the head of the list. I need everything except the last
element ('init' is from Haskell).
>> for i in range(len(names)):
>> print (names[i],totals[i])
>>
>
> Always a code smell when range() and len() are combined.
Any other way of traversing two lists in parallel?
--
Bartc
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