Simple exercise

Thu Mar 10 21:03:05 EST 2016

On 11/03/2016 01:45, BartC wrote:
> 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).

I missed out one character, it should of course have been:-
a[0:-1]
>>>> 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?
>
Use zip(), but as I suggested in my earlier reply there are better data 
structures than two lists in parallel for this problem.
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