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diff --git a/bot/resources/tags/range-len.md b/bot/resources/tags/range-len.md index 4bd377d59..76fe9051e 100644 --- a/bot/resources/tags/range-len.md +++ b/bot/resources/tags/range-len.md @@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ embed: title: "Pythonic way of iterating over ordered collections" --- -Iterating over `range(len(...))` is a common approach to accessing each item in an ordered collection. +Beginners often iterate over `range(len(...))` because they look like Java or C-style loops, but this is almost always a bad practice in Python. ```py for i in range(len(my_list)): do_something(my_list[i]) ``` -The pythonic syntax is much simpler, and is guaranteed to produce elements in the same order: +It's much simpler to iterate over the list (or other sequence) directly: ```py for item in my_list: do_something(item) |