How do I use a C-style for loop in Python?

Question

I want to use the traditional C-style for loop in Python. I want to loop through characters of a string, but also know what it is, and be able to jump through characters (e.

Answer 1

The Python for loop always has foreach semantics. You can, however, do this:

for i in xrange(10):
    print i

This is very much like a C for loop. xrange (or range, as it was renamed in Python 3) is a constructor for a Python object that iterates through a range of numbers. See the docs for more information.