pythonhint

From maney@pobox.com Wed Jan 29 20:49:36 2003
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 19:57:14 -0600
From: Martin Maney <maney@pobox.com>
Reply-To: luni@luni.org
To: luni@luni.org
Subject: Re: [LUNI] program structure for a non-programmer.

On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:58:42PM -0600, Andrew Morrison wrote:
> What I have is a loop that does A,B, and C for x iterations.
> 
> What I want is a loop that does A,B and C for x times, then does A, B,
> C, and D x times, then does A, B, C, D, and E for x times....until it
> does A through Z x times.   

Assuming you have defined functions for each of your "things to do",
which I will refer to as A(), B(), ...

todo_list = (A, B, C, .... Z)
for i in range(3, len(todo_list) + 1):
    for j in range(x):
        for k in range(i):
            todo_list[k]()

does x reps of A,B,C
then x reps of A, B, C, D
then ...

I think that's right.  It's a weird sort of a loop to be doing...

The change to make it do, eg., x reps of A, x reps of B, x reps of C, ...
is left as an exercise.  :-)

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