Skip first entry in for loop in python?

Question

In python, How do I do something like:

for car in cars:
   # Skip first and last, do work for rest

Answer 1

Well, your syntax isn't really Python to begin with.

Iterations in Python are over he contents of containers (well, technically it's over iterators), with a syntax for item in container. In this case, the container is the cars list, but you want to skip the first and last elements, so that means cars[1:-1] (python lists are zero-based, negative numbers count from the end, and : is slicing syntax.

So you want

for c in cars[1:-1]:
    do something with c