diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Doc/tut/tut.tex')
| -rw-r--r-- | Doc/tut/tut.tex | 17 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex index 2d758ae..7171c6f 100644 --- a/Doc/tut/tut.tex +++ b/Doc/tut/tut.tex @@ -878,13 +878,16 @@ if', and is useful to avoid excessive indentation. An \section{\keyword{for} Statements \label{for}} -The \keyword{for} statement in Python differs a bit from what you may be -used to in \C{} or Pascal. Rather than always iterating over an -arithmetic progression of numbers (like in Pascal), or leaving the user -completely free in the iteration test and step (as \C{}), Python's -\keyword{for} statement iterates over the items of any sequence (e.g., a -list or a string), in the order that they appear in the sequence. For -example (no pun intended): +The \keyword{for}\stindex{for} statement in Python differs a bit from +what you may be used to in \C{} or Pascal. Rather than always +iterating over an arithmetic progression of numbers (like in Pascal), +or giving the user the ability to define both the iteration step and +halting condition (as \C{}), Python's \keyword{for}\stindex{for} +statement iterates over the items of any sequence (e.g., a list or a +string), in the order that they appear in the sequence. For example +(no pun intended): +% One suggestion was to give a real C example here, but that may only +% serve to confuse non-C programmers. \begin{verbatim} >>> # Measure some strings: |