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2.4.2 For/Range: Python Scientific Lecture Notes, Release 2012.3 (Euroscipy 2012)

This document contains lecture notes about Python scientific programming. It discusses Python concepts like indentation, for/range loops to iterate with indexes or over values, while loops with features like break and continue, and conditional expressions. Examples are provided like iterating from 0 to 3 with a for loop, printing strings with different words using for, and using while and break/continue in a Mandelbrot problem and to continue or break out of loops.

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2.4.2 For/Range: Python Scientific Lecture Notes, Release 2012.3 (Euroscipy 2012)

This document contains lecture notes about Python scientific programming. It discusses Python concepts like indentation, for/range loops to iterate with indexes or over values, while loops with features like break and continue, and conditional expressions. Examples are provided like iterating from 0 to 3 with a for loop, printing strings with different words using for, and using while and break/continue in a Mandelbrot problem and to continue or break out of loops.

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Python Scientific lecture notes, Release 2012.

3 (EuroScipy 2012)

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A lot

Indentation is compulsory in scripts as well. As an exercise, re-type the previous lines with the same indentation
in a script condition.py, and execute the script with run condition.py in Ipython.

2.4.2 for/range

Iterating with an index:


>>> for i in range(4):
... print(i)
0
1
2
3

But most often, it is more readable to iterate over values:


>>> for word in (’cool’, ’powerful’, ’readable’):
... print(’Python is %s’ % word)
Python is cool
Python is powerful
Python is readable

2.4.3 while/break/continue

Typical C-style while loop (Mandelbrot problem):


>>> z = 1 + 1j
>>> while abs(z) < 100:
... z = z**2 + 1
>>> z
(-134+352j)

More advanced features


break out of enclosing for/while loop:
>>> z = 1 + 1j

>>> while abs(z) < 100:


... if z.imag == 0:
... break
... z = z**2 + 1

continue the next iteration of a loop.:


>>> a = [1, 0, 2, 4]
>>> for element in a:
... if element == 0:
... continue
... print 1. / element
1.0
0.5
0.25

2.4.4 Conditional Expressions

if object

2.4. Control Flow 17

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