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The way your code handles the variable i within the for loop seems to indicate a wrong understanding of the meaning of for i in range(1,n+2): range(1,n+2) will provide an object of type range. ...
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#2: Post edited
by
Dirk Herrmann
·
2022-08-23T19:47:12Z (over 2 years ago)
- The way your code handles the variable `i` within the `for` loop seems to indicate a wrong understanding of the meaning of
- for i in range(1,n+2):
`range(1,n+2)` will provide an object of type `range`. This object represents the sequence of numbers from `1` to `n+2`. At the begin of each iteration the next element from that sequence is fetched and assigned to `i`, _no matter what happened to `i` in between_.- In other words, you can not "skip" elements from the `range` object just by incrementing `i` within the `for` loop. You can see this with the help of the following example code:
- for i in range(3):
- print("Value of i at start of loop body: i = ", i)
- i += 20
- print("Value of i after modification: i = ", i)
- The way your code handles the variable `i` within the `for` loop seems to indicate a wrong understanding of the meaning of
- for i in range(1,n+2):
- `range(1,n+2)` will provide an object of type `range`. This object represents the sequence of numbers from `1` to (not including) `n+2`. At the begin of each iteration the next element from that sequence is fetched and assigned to `i`, _no matter what happened to `i` in between_.
- In other words, you can not "skip" elements from the `range` object just by incrementing `i` within the `for` loop. You can see this with the help of the following example code:
- for i in range(3):
- print("Value of i at start of loop body: i = ", i)
- i += 20
- print("Value of i after modification: i = ", i)
#1: Initial revision
by
Dirk Herrmann
·
2022-08-23T19:45:20Z (over 2 years ago)
The way your code handles the variable `i` within the `for` loop seems to indicate a wrong understanding of the meaning of
for i in range(1,n+2):
`range(1,n+2)` will provide an object of type `range`. This object represents the sequence of numbers from `1` to `n+2`. At the begin of each iteration the next element from that sequence is fetched and assigned to `i`, _no matter what happened to `i` in between_.
In other words, you can not "skip" elements from the `range` object just by incrementing `i` within the `for` loop. You can see this with the help of the following example code:
for i in range(3):
print("Value of i at start of loop body: i = ", i)
i += 20
print("Value of i after modification: i = ", i)